Use of facile mechanochemical method to functionalize carbon nanofibers with nanostructured polyaniline and their electrochemical capacitance

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Du, Xusheng ^a   Liu, Hong Yuan ^a   Cai, Guipeng ^a   Mai, Yiu Wing ^a   Baji, Avinash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Carbon nanofiber; Conducting polymer; Mechanochemistry; Nanocomposite; Polyaniline

Indexed keywords

ANILINE; CAPACITANCE; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTROLYTES; IRON COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYANILINE; POLYMERIZATION;

ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITANCE; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; HIERARCHICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES; MECHANO-CHEMICAL METHODS; MECHANO-CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION POLYMERIZATION; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84863280347     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-111     Document Type: Article

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