Increasing energy storage in electrochemical capacitors with ionic liquid electrolytes and nanostructured carbon electrodes

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 2829-2837

  Vatamanu, Jenel ^a   Hu, Zongzhi ^a   Bedrov, Dmitry ^a   Perez, Carlos ^b   Gogotsi, Yury ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

capacitance; ionic liquid; nanoconfinement; super ionic state; supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR; IONIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; IONIC STATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO-STRUCTURED ELECTRODES; NANOCONFINEMENTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS; SUPER CAPACITOR;

CAPACITANCE; CARBON; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY STORAGE; IONIC LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84883760025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401472c     Document Type: Article

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