Enhanced charge storage of ultrathin polythiophene films within porous nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5413-5422

  Nejati, Siamak ^a   Minford, Thomas E ^a   Smolin, Yuriy Y ^a   Lau, Kenneth K S ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

activated carbon; nanostructured electrode; oxidative chemical vapor deposition (oCVD); polythiophene; pseudocapacitor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COATINGS; NANOSTRUCTURES; VAPORS;

ANODIZED ALUMINUM OXIDE; NANO-STRUCTURED ELECTRODES; OXIDATIVE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (OCVD); POLY-THIOPHENE; POLYTHIOPHENE FILMS; POROUS NANOSTRUCTURES; PSEUDOCAPACITORS; VOLUMETRIC CAPACITANCE;

ULTRATHIN FILMS;

EID: 84903482103     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500007c     Document Type: Article

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