Young Soo Park

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the key factors determining the performance of supercapacitors constructed using single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) electrodes and found a maximum specific capacitance of 180 F/g and a measured power density of 20 kW/kg at energy densities in the range from 7 to 6.5 Wh/kg in a solution of 7.5 N KOH.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed density-functional-based tight-binding calculations to search for adsorption sites and predict the maximum hydrogen storage capacity in carbon nanotubes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that the desorption energy barrier of a C-O pair from the nanotube edge is 2.48 eV, higher than 0.3∼2.1 eV from an amorphous carbon, confirming the current approach of purification by the selective oxidation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize carbon nanotubes by thermal chemical vapor deposition of C2H2 on transition metal-coated silicon substrates, and demonstrate that the diameters of carbon-nanotubes can be controlled by applying the different transition metals.