Rationally designed graphene-nanotube 3D architectures with a seamless nodal junction for efficient energy conversion and storage

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Xue, Yuhua ^a,b   Ding, Yong ^c   Niu, Jianbing ^d   Xia, Zhenhai ^d   Roy, Ajit ^e   Chen, Hao ^b   Qu, Jia ^b   Wang, Zhong Lin ^c,f   Dai, Liming ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COATINGS; ARCHITECTURE; CAPACITANCE; CARBON; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; GRAPHENE; NANOTUBES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; STORAGE (MATERIALS); SUPERCAPACITOR; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VIRTUAL STORAGE; WIRE; YARN;

ANODIZED ALUMINUM; COUNTER ELECTRODES; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 85034002922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400198     Document Type: Article

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