Synthesis of cobalt sulfide-graphene (CoS/G) nanocomposites for supercapacitor applications

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 985-990

  Ramachandran, Rajendran ^a   Felix, Sathiyanathan ^a   Saranya, Murugan ^a   Santhosh, Chella ^a   Velmurugan, Venugopal ^a   Ragupathy, Bala Praveen Chakkravarthy ^a,b   Jeong, Soon Kwan ^c   Grace, Andrews Nirmala ^a,b  

^a VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Research and Advanced Engineering Division (Materials) Renault Nissan Technology and Business Center India (P) Ltd   (India)

^c Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CoS; cyclic voltammetry; Graphene; nanocomposites; specific capacitance

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE BEHAVIOR; COS; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITES; POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE); SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE; SUPERCAPACITOR APPLICATION;

CAPACITORS; COBALT; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84888109002     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2013.2278287     Document Type: Article

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