Scalable holey graphene synthesis and dense electrode fabrication toward high-performance ultracapacitors

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8255-8265

  Han, Xiaogang ^a   Funk, Michael R ^b,c   Shen, Fei ^a   Chen, Yu Chen ^a   Li, Yuanyuan ^a   Campbell, Caroline J ^d   Dai, Jiaqi ^a   Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Kim, Jae Woo ^d   Liao, Yunlong ^d,f   Connell, John W ^c   Barone, Veronica ^e   Chen, Zhongfang ^f   Lin, Yi ^b,d   Hu, Liangbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b William and Mary   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^e CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

dense graphene electrode; facile processability; holey graphene; scalable synthesis; supercapacitor; ultracapacitor; volumetric capacitance

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL STABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; MORPHOLOGY; SUPERCAPACITOR;

CAPACITIVE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRODE FABRICATION; GRAPHENE ELECTRODES; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; PROCESSABILITY; SCALABLE SYNTHESIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; VOLUMETRIC CAPACITANCE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84906656452     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502635y     Document Type: Article

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