Nitrogen-doped porous carbons as electrode materials for high-performance supercapacitor and dye-sensitized solar cell

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 20234-20244

  Wang, Lan ^a   Gao, Zhiyong ^a   Chang, Jiuli ^a   Liu, Xiao ^a   Wu, Dapeng ^a   Xu, Fang ^a   Guo, Yuming ^a   Jiang, Kai ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cell; graphene; melamine formaldehyde resin; N doped porous carbons; supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; FORMALDEHYDE; GRAPHENE; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; POROUS MATERIALS; RESINS; SOLAR CELLS; SYNTHETIC RESINS;

ACTIVATION TEMPERATURES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITANCES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POROUS CARBONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SUPER CAPACITOR; SUPERCAPACITOR ELECTRODES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84941790033     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05790     Document Type: Article

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