Synthesis of activated carbon nanospheres with hierarchical porous structure for high volumetric performance supercapacitors

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 182, Issue , 2015, Pages 908-916

  Yu, Xiaoliang ^a   Lu, Jiamin ^a   Zhan, Changzhen ^a   Lv, Ruitao ^a   Liang, Qinghua ^a   Huang, Zheng Hong ^a   Shen, Wanci ^a   Kang, Feiyu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

activated carbon nanospheres; hierarchical porosity; potassium hydroxide activation; supercapacitors; volumetric performance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE;

CARBON NANOSPHERE; HIERARCHICAL POROSITY; HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES; OXYGEN-CONTAINING FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; POROUS CARBON MATERIALS; SUPER CAPACITOR; VOLUMETRIC ENERGY DENSITIES; VOLUMETRIC PERFORMANCE;

NANOSPHERES;

EID: 84944096779     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.10.016     Document Type: Article

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