Carbon nanofibres and activated carbon nanofibres as electrodes in supercapacitors

Carbon

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 551-557

  Merino, Cesar ^a   Soto, Pablo ^a   Vilaplana Ortego, Eduardo ^b   De Gomez Salazar, Jose M ^c   Pico, Fernando ^d   Rojo, José M ^d  

^a Nanofiber Division   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

A. Catalytically grown carbon; B. Activation; C. Scanning electron microscopy; D. Electrochemical properties; Electrodes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CAPACITORS; CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACTIVATING AGENTS; ACTIVATION; CATALYTICALLY GROWN CARBON; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 10844263377     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.10.018     Document Type: Article

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