Design of aqueous redox-enhanced electrochemical capacitors with high specific energies and slow self-discharge

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chun, Sang Eun ^a   Evanko, Brian ^b   Wang, Xingfeng ^c   Vonlanthen, David ^d   Ji, Xiulei ^c   Stucky, Galen D ^b,d   Boettcher, Shannon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BROMIDE; CARBON; HALOGEN; HYDROGEN; PARAQUAT; POLYCARBONATE; POTASSIUM SULFATE;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIODEGRADATION; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DESIGN; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROKINESIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REDOX POTENTIAL; STABILIZATION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CELL COMPONENT; CELL ENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; POLYMERIZATION; POTENTIOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84938589594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8818     Document Type: Article

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