On the atomistic nature of capacitance enhancement generated by ionic liquid electrolyte confined in subnanometer pores

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 132-140

  Xing, Lidan ^a,b   Vatamanu, Jenel ^a   Borodin, Oleg ^c   Bedrov, Dmitry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CAPACITANCE ENHANCEMENT; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; COUNTERION DENSITY; DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITANCE; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; FAST CHARGES; FLAT ELECTRODES; FLAT SURFACES; INTEGRAL CAPACITANCE; ION-ION INTERACTION; IONIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; POSITIVE ELECTRODES; SUBNANOMETERS;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTROLYTES; IONIC LIQUIDS; IONS;

NANOPORES;

EID: 84872180273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz301782f     Document Type: Article

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