Integrating large specific surface area and high conductivity in hydrogenated NiCo2O4 double-shell hollow spheres to improve supercapacitors

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Li, Xiaoming ^a,b   Jiang, Lianfu ^a,b   Zhou, Cheng ^c   Liu, Jinping ^c   Zeng, Haibo ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; HYDROGENATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; SPHERES; TEMPERATURE;

CAPACITIVE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; LARGE SPECIFIC SURFACE AREAS; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84990966446     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2015.11     Document Type: Article

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