Complementary Effects of Pore Accessibility and Decoordination on the Capacitance of Nanoporous Carbon Electrochemical Supercapacitors

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 52, 2015, Pages 28809-28818

  Varanasi, Srinivasa Rao ^a   Farmahini, Amir H ^a   Bhatia, Suresh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; IONS; MICROPOROSITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PORE SIZE; TRANSPORTATION;

ATOMISTIC STRUCTURE; COORDINATION NUMBER; DEGREE OF CONFINEMENT; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL SUPERCAPACITOR; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MICRO-POROUS CARBONS; NANOPOROUS CARBONS;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 84953326191     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b10712     Document Type: Article

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