High surface area electrodes by template-free self-assembled hierarchical porous gold architecture

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 472, Issue , 2016, Pages 84-89

  Morag, Ahiud ^a   Golub, Tatiana ^a   Becker, James ^a   Jelinek, Raz ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gold thiocyanate; Plasma; Porous gold; Supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRODES; GOLD; PLASMAS;

ACTIVE SURFACE AREA; ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; HIERARCHICAL POROUS; HIGH SURFACE AREA ELECTRODES; MULTISTEP PROCESS; POROUS GOLD; SPONTANEOUS CRYSTALLIZATION; SUPER CAPACITOR;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

GOLD; GOLD THIOCYANATE; NANOWIRE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODE; PLASMA; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE AREA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84961795075     PISSN: 00219797     EISSN: 10957103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.03.035     Document Type: Article

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