Alkali reduction of graphene oxide in molten halide salts: Production of corrugated graphene derivatives for high-performance supercapacitors

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11225-11233

  Abdelkader, Amr M ^a   Vallés, Cristina ^a   Cooper, Adam J ^a   Kinloch, Ian A ^a   Dryfe, Robert A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graphene oxide; Metallothermic reduction; Molten halide; Surface corrugation

Indexed keywords

ALKALI HALIDES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE OXIDE; MOLTEN MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERCAPACITOR; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ALKALI REDUCTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITANCE; HUMMERS METHOD; METALLOTHERMIC REDUCTION; MOLTEN HALIDES; SURFACE CORRUGATIONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84912521474     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505700x     Document Type: Article

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