Carbon Nanotube-Based Supercapacitors with Excellent ac Line Filtering and Rate Capability via Improved Interfacial Impedance

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 7248-7255

  Rangom, Yverick ^a   Tang, Xiaowu ^a   Nazar, Linda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

ac line filtering; carbon nanotubes; EDLC; electric double layer capacitor; electrochemical capacitor; high current density; supercapacitor; ultrahigh sweep rate

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE FILMS; ELECTRIC CURRENT COLLECTORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; GRAPHENE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STAINLESS STEEL; SURFACE TREATMENT; THICK FILMS; YARN;

EDLC; ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER CAPACITOR; ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; SUPER CAPACITOR; SWEEP RATES;

CARBON FILMS;

EID: 84938125653     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02075     Document Type: Article

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