Single-walled carbon nanohorns for energy applications

Nanomaterials

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1732-1755

  Zhang, Zhichao ^a   Han, Shuang ^a   Wang, Chao ^b,c   Li, Jianping ^b   Xu, Guobao ^b,c  

^a SHENYANG UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Biofuel cell; Fuel cell; Hydrogen storage; Li ion batteries; Single walled carbon nanohorn; Solar cell; Supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944745233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano5041732     Document Type: Review

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