Charge storage accessibility factor as a parameter determining the capacitive performance of nanoporous carbon-based supercapacitors

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1024-1032

  Seredych, Mykola ^a   Koscinski, Mikolaj ^a,c   Sliwinska Bartkowiak, Malgorzata ^c   Bandosz, Teresa J ^a,b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Conductivity; Graphene carbon composite; Nanoporous carbon; Porosity

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE PERFORMANCE; DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITANCE; ELECTRICAL DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITANCES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; NANOPOROUS CARBONS; POTENTIOMETRIC TITRATIONS; SURFACE OXYGEN CONTENT; THREE ELECTRODE CELLS;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAS ADSORPTION; POROSITY; TITRATION; VOLTAMMETRY;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84881468607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc400092g     Document Type: Article

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