In situ small angle neutron scattering revealing ion sorption in microporous carbon electrical double layer capacitors

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2495-2503

  Boukhalfa, Sofiane ^a   Gordon, Daniel ^a   He, Lilin ^b   Melnichenko, Yuri B ^b   Nitta, Naoki ^a   Magasinski, Alexandre ^a   Yushin, Gleb ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy storage; ion adsorption; porous carbon; small angle neutron scattering

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CAPACITORS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY STORAGE; MICROPOROSITY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY CURVES; DOUBLE LAYER CAPACITOR; ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYER CAPACITOR; ION ADSORPTION; POROUS CARBONS; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM TETRAFLUOROBORATE;

IONS;

EID: 84897013508     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406077n     Document Type: Article

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