Electrochemical reduction of ultrathin graphene oxide/polyaniline films for supercapacitor electrodes with a high specific capacitance

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 436, Issue , 2013, Pages 967-974

  Sarker, Ashis K ^a   Hong, Jong Dal ^a  

^a SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Electrochemical reduction; Electrostatic self assembly; Graphene polyaniline composite; Supercapacitor; Ultrathin film fabrication

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GRAPHENE; MULTILAYER FILMS; POLYANILINE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; GRAPHENE-POLYANILINE COMPOSITES; SUPER CAPACITOR; ULTRA-THIN;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

GRAPHENE OXIDE; POLYANILINE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DENSITY; DOPING; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ION TRANSPORT; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84884171825     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2013.08.043     Document Type: Article

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