Synthesis of nitrogen-doped porous carbon nanofibers as an efficient electrode material for supercapacitors

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7092-7102

  Chen, Li Feng ^a   Zhang, Xu Dong ^a   Liang, Hai Wei ^a   Kong, Mingguang ^b   Guan, Qing Fang ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Wu, Zhen Yu ^a   Yu, Shu Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

electrode material; nitrogen doped porous carbon nanofibers; scale up production; supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE RETENTION; CARBONACEOUS NANOFIBERS; COMPOSITE NANOFIBERS; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; HIGH-CAPACITY; MATERIAL-BASED; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; NITROGEN-DOPED; POROUS CARBON NANOFIBERS; SCALE-UP; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE; SUPER CAPACITOR; ULTRACAPACITORS;

CAPACITANCE; CARBONIZATION; ENERGY STORAGE; NANOFIBERS; NITROGEN; POLYPYRROLES;

CAPACITORS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; POWER SUPPLY;

ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NITROGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY;

EID: 84865595388     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302147s     Document Type: Article

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