Nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbon nanowhisker ensembles on carbon nanofiber for high-performance supercapacitors

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1525-1533

  Zhang, Jianan ^a   Zhang, Xianglan ^a   Zhou, Yunchun ^c   Guo, Shaojun ^b   Wang, Kaixi ^a   Liang, Zhiqiang ^d   Xu, Qun ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofiber; Hierarchical structure; Nanowhisker; Porous structure; Supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CARBONIZATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NANOFIBERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWHISKERS; NITROGEN; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; YARN;

CARBON NANO-MATERIALS; ENERGY STORAGE AND CONVERSIONS; HIERARCHICAL POROUS CARBONS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCESS; POROUS STRUCTURES; POST HIGH TEMPERATURES; SUPER CAPACITOR;

CARBON NANOFIBERS;

EID: 84990836961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500221s     Document Type: Article

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