Chemical vapor-deposited carbon nanofibers on carbon fabric for supercapacitor electrode applications

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gao, Yang ^a,b   Pandey, Gaind P ^b   Turner, James ^b   Westgate, Charles R ^b   Sammakia, Bahgat ^b  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon fabric; Carbon nanofibers; Cyclic voltammetry; Supercapacitor; Water assisted chemical vapor deposition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CAPACITANCE; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; ETHYLENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCATALYSTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERCAPACITOR; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CAPACITIVE BEHAVIOR; CARBON FABRICS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITED; MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURES; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE; SUPERCAPACITOR ELECTRODES; VOLTAMMETRY MEASUREMENTS; WATER-ASSISTED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY;

EID: 84871248889     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-651     Document Type: Article

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