Effect of reducing agent on graphene synthesis and its influence on charge storage towards supercapacitor applications

Applied Energy

Volumn 153, Issue , 2015, Pages 22-31

  Ramachandran, Rajendran ^a   Saranya, Murugan ^a   Velmurugan, Venugopal ^a   Raghupathy, Bala P C ^b   Jeong, Soon Kwan ^c   Grace, Andrews Nirmala ^a,c  

^a VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Research and Advanced Engineering Department Renault Nissan Technologies and Business Centre India Mahindra World City   (India)

^c Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Graphene; Sodium borohydride; Specific capacitance; Supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; REDUCTION; SODIUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CAPACITANCE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITANCES; SODIUM BORO HYDRIDES; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE; SUPER CAPACITOR; SUPERCAPACITOR APPLICATION;

GRAPHENE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84930273159     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.02.091     Document Type: Article

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