Multifunctional carbon nanostructures for advanced energy storage applications

Nanomaterials

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 755-777

  Wang, Yiran ^a   Wei, Huige ^a   Lu, Yang ^b   Wei, Suying ^c   Wujcik, Evan K ^b   Guo, Zhanhu ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b Lamar University   (United States)

^c LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery; Capacitor; CNT; Energy storage; Fuel cell; Graphene; Multifunctional; Nanocarbon; Nanocomposite; Nanomaterial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937577899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano5020755     Document Type: Review

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