Facile Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Heteroatom-Doped and Hierarchical Egg-Box-Like Carbons Derived from Moringa oleifera Branches for High-Performance Supercapacitors

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 48, 2016, Pages 33060-33071

  Cai, Yijin ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Xiao, Yong ^a   Zhao, Xiao ^a   Liang, Yeru ^a   Hu, Hang ^a   Dong, Hanwu ^a   Sun, Luyi ^b   Liu, Yingliang ^a   Zheng, Mingtao ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

cycling stability; electrode materials; heteroatom doping; hierarchical structured carbons; Moringa oleifera; supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROLYTES;

CYCLING STABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS; HETEROATOMS; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; INTERCONNECTED POROSITY; MORINGA OLEIFERA;

SUPERCAPACITOR;

EID: 85002774519     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b10893     Document Type: Article

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