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Electrochemical characterization of carbon nanotubes as electrode in electrochemical double-layer capacitors

Jun Chen, +5 more
- 01 Jul 2002 - 
- Vol. 40, Iss: 8, pp 1193-1197
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In this paper, carbon nanotubes uniformly 50 nm in diameter were grown on graphite foil, and cyclic voltammetry (CV) showed that the carbon-graphite foil electrode has a high specific capacitance (115.7 F/g at a scan rate of 100 mV/s) and exhibits typical double-layer behavior.
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This article is published in Carbon.The article was published on 2002-07-01. It has received 389 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Working electrode & Cyclic voltammetry.

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Advanced Materials for Energy Storage

TL;DR: This Review introduces several typical energy storage systems, including thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, hydrogen, and electrochemical energy storage, and the current status of high-performance hydrogen storage materials for on-board applications and electrochemicals for lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
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Carbon properties and their role in supercapacitors

TL;DR: Supercapacitors are able to store and deliver energy at relatively high rates (beyond those accessible with batteries) because the mechanism of energy storage is simple charge-separation (as in conventional capacitors) as discussed by the authors.
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Review on supercapacitors: Technologies and materials

TL;DR: In this article, the technologies and working principles of different materials used in supercapacitors are explained, together with brief explanations of their properties, such as specific surface area and capacitance values.
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Recent Advances in Design and Fabrication of Electrochemical Supercapacitors with High Energy Densities

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed several key issues for improving the energy densities of supercapacitors and some mutual relationships among various effecting parameters, and challenges and perspectives in this exciting field are discussed.
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Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon

Sumio Iijima
- 01 Nov 1991 - 
TL;DR: Iijima et al. as mentioned in this paper reported the preparation of a new type of finite carbon structure consisting of needle-like tubes, which were produced using an arc-discharge evaporation method similar to that used for fullerene synthesis.
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Nanotube molecular wires as chemical sensors

TL;DR: The nanotubes sensors exhibit a fast response and a substantially higher sensitivity than that of existing solid-state sensors at room temperature and the mechanisms of molecular sensing with nanotube molecular wires are investigated.
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Storage of hydrogen in single-walled carbon nanotubes

TL;DR: In this article, a gas can condense to high density inside narrow, single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) under conditions that do not induce adsorption within a standard mesoporous activated carbon.
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Electronic structure of atomically resolved carbon nanotubes

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy on individual single-walled nanotubes from which atomically resolved images allow us to examine electronic properties as afunction of tube diameter and wrapping angle.
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Synthesis of Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Glass

TL;DR: Large panels of aligned carbon nanotubes can be made under conditions that are suitable for device fabrication under plasma-enhanced hot filament chemical vapor deposition.
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