Activated carbons derived from coconut shells as high energy density cathode material for Li-ion capacitors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jain, Akshay ^a   Aravindan, Vanchiappan ^b   Jayaraman, Sundaramurthy ^a,b   Kumar, Palaniswamy Suresh ^b   Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar ^a   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a   Madhavi, Srinivasan ^b,c,d   Srinivasan, M P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d TUM CREATE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84886258294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03002     Document Type: Article

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