Electrochemical properties of carbon from oil palm kernel shell for high performance supercapacitors

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 78-86

  Misnon, Izan Izwan ^a   Zain, Nurul Khairiyyah Mohd ^a   Aziz, Radhiyah Abd ^a   Vidyadharan, Baiju ^a   Jose, Rajan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Amorphous materials; Energy storage; Pseudocapacitors; Supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY STORAGE; PALM OIL; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; SUPERCAPACITOR;

CHARGE DISCHARGE CYCLING; CHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROCHEMICAL DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITORS; HIGH POWER DENSITY; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITANCES; PORE DISTRIBUTION; PSEUDOCAPACITORS; SERIES RESISTANCES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84935871448     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.05.163     Document Type: Article

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