Performance enhancement of single-walled nanotube-microwave exfoliated graphene oxide composite electrodes using a stacked electrode configuration

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 2, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 14835-14843

  Antiohos, Dennis ^a   Romano, Mark S ^a   Razal, Joselito M ^a   Beirne, Stephen ^a   Aitchison, Phil ^b   Minett, Andrew I ^c   Wallace, Gordon G ^a   Chen, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Cap XX Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; NANOTUBES;

CAPACITIVE PERFORMANCE; ELECTROACTIVE SURFACE AREAS; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTRODE PERFORMANCE; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBE; STAINLESS STEEL MESH;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84906278845     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta02190h     Document Type: Article

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