Metallic mesocrystal nanosheets of vanadium nitride for high-performance all-solid-state pseudocapacitors

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 193-200

  Bi, Wentuan ^a   Hu, Zhenpeng ^b   Li, Xiaogang ^a   Wu, Changzheng ^a   Wu, Junchi ^a   Wu, Yubin ^a   Xie, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

chemical and thermal stability; confined growth; mesocrystal nanosheets; supercapacitors; vanadium nitride

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922104988     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0612-y     Document Type: Article

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