Single-step, plasma-enabled reforming of natural precursors into vertical graphene electrodes with high areal capacitance

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 544-551

  Seo, Dong Han ^a,b   Yick, Samuel ^a,b   Pineda, Shafique ^a,b   Su, Dawei ^c   Wang, Guoxiu ^c   Han, Zhao Jun ^a   Ostrikov, K ^a,b,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

High areal capacitance; High mass loading; Natural precursor; Supercapacitor; Vertical graphene nanosheets

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DAIRIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ENERGY STORAGE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE DEVICES; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; GREEN MANUFACTURING; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NANOSHEETS; SUPERCAPACITOR; TEMPERATURE;

COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ENERGY APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; MASS LOADINGS; NATURAL PRECURSOR; SUPERCAPACITOR ELECTRODES;

LOADING;

EID: 84923886984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500806s     Document Type: Article

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