Surfactant-Free Assembly of Mesoporous Carbon Hollow Spheres with Large Tunable Pore Sizes

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 4579-4586

  Zhang, Hongwei ^a   Noonan, Owen ^a   Huang, Xiaodan ^a   Yang, Yannan ^a   Xu, Chun ^a   Zhou, Liang ^b   Yu, Chengzhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

mesoporous hollow carbon; sol gel process; supercapacitors; surfactant free; yolk shell structures

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; METALS; PORE SIZE; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ADJUSTABLE PORE SIZE; CAPACITY RETENTION; CO-CONDENSATION PROCESS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITORS; MESOPOROUS; SUPER CAPACITOR; SURFACTANT-FREE; YOLK-SHELL STRUCTURES;

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES;

EID: 84967154093     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00723     Document Type: Article

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