Supercapacitors based on highly dispersed polypyrrole-reduced graphene oxide composite with a folded surface

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 693-698

  Wang, Anqi ^a   Zhou, Xi ^a   Qian, Tao ^a   Yu, Chenfei ^a   Wu, Shishan ^a   Shen, Jian ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; ENERGY STORAGE; POLYPYRROLES;

ELECTRODE MATERIAL; ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; HIGH POWER DENSITY; HYBRID SUPERCAPACITORS; IN-SITU SYNTHESIS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE; ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84937966626     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-015-9241-x     Document Type: Article

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