Nanopatterning of electrode surfaces as a potential route to improve the energy density of electric double-layer capacitors: Insight from molecular simulations

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1124-1129

  Xing, Lidan ^a,b   Vatamanu, Jenel ^a   Smith, Grant D ^c   Bedrov, Dmitry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Wasatch Molecular Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED POTENTIALS; ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITANCE; DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER; ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER CAPACITOR; ELECTRODE STRUCTURE; ELECTRODE SURFACES; ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; ENERGY DENSITY; ION SEPARATION; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NANOPATTERNING; ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS; STORAGE TECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PATTERN;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTROLYTES; IONIC LIQUIDS;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84860517657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300253p     Document Type: Article

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