Hollow fluffy Co3O4 cages as efficient electroactive materials for supercapacitors and oxygen evolution reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 20322-20331

  Zhou, Xuemei ^a,b   Shen, Xuetao ^a,b   Xia, Zhaoming ^a,b   Zhang, Zhiyun ^a,b   Li, Jing ^a,b   Ma, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Qu, Yongquan ^a,b  

^a Frontier Institute of Science and Technology   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrochemical capacitance; hierarchical structures; hollow cages Co3O4; oxygen evolution reaction; ultrathin nanosheets

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NANOSHEETS; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; REDOX REACTIONS; SUPERCAPACITOR;

ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITANCE; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HOLLOW CAGES CO3O4; OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; ULTRATHIN NANOSHEETS;

SURFACE REACTIONS;

EID: 84941755095     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05989     Document Type: Article

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