Unusual increase in the electric double-layer capacitance with charge-discharge cycles of nitrogen doped single-walled carbon nanotubes

Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 331-336

  Jiang, Zinan ^a   Al Zubaidi, Ayar ^b   Kawasaki, Shinji ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystallinity; Defects; EDLC; Nitrogen doping; Post synthesis; SWCNTs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904270265     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2014.1174     Document Type: Article

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