Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube spherical particles for supercapacitor applications: Emulsion-assisted compact packing and capacitance enhancement

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 20083-20089

  Gueon, Donghee ^a   Moon, Jun Hyuk ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; droplet confinement; nitrogen doping; pseudocapacitance; supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; EMULSIFICATION; NITROGEN; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPHERES; THROUGHPUT; YARN;

HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; NANOSTRUCTURED CARBON MATERIALS; NITROGEN DOPED CARBON NANOTUBES; NITROGEN-DOPING; PSEUDOCAPACITANCE; SUPER CAPACITOR; SUPERCAPACITOR APPLICATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84941773157     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05231     Document Type: Article

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