Functional Groups and Pore Size Distribution Do Matter to Hierarchically Porous Carbons as High-Rate-Performance Supercapacitors

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 445-458

  Wei, Xianjun ^a   Jiang, Xiaoqiang ^a   Wei, Jishi ^a   Gao, Shuyan ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MICROPOROSITY; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POLYACRYLONITRILES; POLYANILINE; POROUS MATERIALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BRUNAUER-EMMETT-TELLER SURFACE AREAS; CAPACITANCE RETENTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; EQUIVALENT SERIES RESISTANCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS CARBONS; MICROPORE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION;

PORE SIZE;

EID: 84962316627     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02336     Document Type: Article

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