Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet electrode-based high-performance ionic actuator

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wu, Guan ^a   Hu, Ying ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Zhao, Jingjing ^a   Chen, Xueli ^a   Whoehling, Vincent ^b   Plesse, Cédric ^b   Nguyen, Giao T M ^b   Vidal, Frédéric ^b   Chen, Wei ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NITRIDE; ELECTROLYTE; IONIC LIQUID; NANOMATERIAL; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYTE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER; STRAIN;

ARTICLE; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IONIC ACTUATOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84931274892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8258     Document Type: Article

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