Liquid crystalline graphene oxide/PEDOT:PSS self-assembled 3D architecture for binder-free supercapacitor electrodes

Frontiers in Energy Research

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Islam, Md Monirul ^a   Chidembo, Alfred T ^a   Aboutalebi, Seyed Hamed ^a   Cardillo, Dean ^a   Liu, Hua Kun ^a   Konstantinov, Konstantin ^a   Dou, Shi Xue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binder free; Conducting polymer; Liquid crystalline; PEDOT:PSS; Self assembled; Supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928158628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2014.00031     Document Type: Article

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