Three-dimensional strutted graphene grown by substrate-free sugar blowing for high-power-density supercapacitors

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Xuebin ^a,b   Zhang, Yuanjian ^c   Zhi, Chunyi ^d   Wang, Xi ^a   Tang, Daiming ^a   Xu, Yibin ^a   Weng, Qunhong ^a   Jiang, Xiangfen ^a,b   Mitome, Masanori ^a   Golberg, Dmitri ^a   Bando, Yoshio ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; SUGAR;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; POLYMER; SUBSTRATE; SUGAR; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHONON; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84890762674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3905     Document Type: Article

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