Highly confined ions store charge more efficiently in supercapacitors

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Merlet, C ^a,b   Pean C ^a,b,c   Rotenberg, B ^a,b   Madden, P A ^d   Daffos, B ^b,c   Taberna, P L ^b,c   Simon, P ^b,c   Salanne, M ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTROLYTE; ION; IONIC LIQUID;

ADSORPTION; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ION; LIQUID; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRODE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; STORAGE; SUPERCAPACITOR; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 84887066222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3701     Document Type: Article

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