Perspectives on supercapacitors, pseudocapacitors and batteries

Nanomaterials and Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 136-158

  Bakker, Martin G ^a   Frazier, Rachel M ^a   Bara, Jason E ^a   Chopra, Nitin ^b   Spear, Scott ^a   Pan, Shanlin ^a   Xu, Cailing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b University of Alabama   (United States)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy; Storage; Supercapacitors

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY STORAGE; IONIC LIQUIDS; SOLAR ENERGY; STORAGE (MATERIALS); TRANSITION METAL OXIDES; TRANSITION METALS;

ASYMMETRIC SUPERCAPACITOR; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGES; ENERGY; ION CONDUCTIVE POLYMERS; IONIC LIQUID (ILS); POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SILICON-BASED DEVICES;

SUPERCAPACITOR;

EID: 85126706308     PISSN: 20459831     EISSN: 2045984X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/nme.11.00007     Document Type: Review

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