Avoiding Resistance Limitations in High-Performance Transparent Supercapacitor Electrodes Based on Large-Area, High-Conductivity PEDOT:PSS Films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 16495-16506

  Higgins, Thomas M ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

conducting polymer; electrochemical capacitor; PEDOT:PSS; percolation; printed electronics; supercapacitor; transparent electronics

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRODES; OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLVENTS; STYRENE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR; PEDOT:PSS; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; SUPER CAPACITOR; TRANSPARENT ELECTRONICS;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84938651178     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03882     Document Type: Article

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