Ultrahigh-power micrometre-sized supercapacitors based on onion-like carbon

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 651-654

  Pech, David ^a,b   Brunet, Magali ^a,b   Durou, Hugo ^a,b   Huang, Peihua ^a,b   Mochalin, Vadym ^c   Gogotsi, Yury ^c   Taberna, Pierre Louis ^b   Simon, Patrice ^b  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; CAPACITORS; CARBON; CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROPHORESIS; HYBRID VEHICLES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SECONDARY BATTERIES; SUPERCAPACITOR;

ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR; ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITIONS; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; HIGH SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; MICROSUPERCAPACITORS; NANOSTRUCTURED CARBONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

CARBON NANOFIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERCAPACITOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 77956440349     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.162     Document Type: Article

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