Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Structural, Optical, and Enhanced Supercapacitive Performance of Zinc Oxide Anchored Graphitic Carbon Nanofiber Hybrid Electrodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5025-5039

  Dillip, Gowra Raghupathy ^a   Banerjee, Arghya Narayan ^a   Anitha, Veettikkunnu Chandran ^a   Deva Prasad Raju, Borelli ^b   Joo, Sang Woo ^a   Min, Bong Ki ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^b SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

bandgap narrowing; oxygen deficiency; supercapacitor; zinc oxide carbon nanofiber hybrid

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON NANOFIBERS; ELECTRODES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY GAP; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOFIBERS; OXYGEN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VACANCIES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

BAND GAP NARROWING; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHITIC CARBON NANOFIBERS; NON-STOICHIOMETRIC OXYGEN; OXYGEN DEFICIENCY; SUPER CAPACITOR; VACUUM ANNEALING TEMPERATURE;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84962594175     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b12322     Document Type: Article

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