Self-Assembled N/S Codoped Flexible Graphene Paper for High Performance Energy Storage and Oxygen Reduction Reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 2078-2087

  Akhter, Taslima ^a   Islam, Md Monirul ^a   Faisal, Shaikh Nayeem ^b   Haque, Enamul ^b   Minett, Andrew I ^b   Liu, Hua Kun ^a   Konstantinov, Konstantin ^a   Dou, Shi Xue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

codoped graphene; flexible; liquid crystalline; oxygen reduction reaction; self assembly; supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; ENERGY STORAGE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CO-DOPED; FLEXIBLE; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SUPER CAPACITOR;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84955581312     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10545     Document Type: Article

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