The role of ionic electrolytes on capacitive performance of ZnO-reduced graphene oxide nanohybrids with thermally tunable morphologies

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1394-1405

  Prakash, Anand ^a   Bahadur, D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

electrical double layer capacitors; energy storage; graphene ZnO nanohybrids; reduced graphene oxide; supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894156780     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am405031y     Document Type: Article

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