Na+ intercalation pseudocapacitance in graphene-coupled titanium oxide enabling ultra-fast sodium storage and long-term cycling

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Chaoji ^a   Wen, Yanwei ^a   Hu, Xianluo ^a   Ji, Xiulei ^b   Yan, Mengyu ^c   Mai, Liqiang ^c   Hu, Pei ^a   Shan, Bin ^a   Huang, Yunhui ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE COUPLED TITANIUM OXIDE; NANOCOMPOSITE; SODIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; ELECTRODE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODE; PSEUDOCAPACITANCE;

EID: 84928803185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7929     Document Type: Article

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