ZnO Nano-Flowers Assembled on Carbon Fiber Textile for High-Performance Supercapacitor’s Electrode
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental
2.1. The Preparation of ZnO Nano-Flowers on Carbon Fabric Cloth for a Binder-Free Electrode
2.2. ZnO@CFT Electrode Fabrication
2.3. Materials Characterization
2.4. Measurements of Electrochemistry
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Abbas, Q.; Javed, M.S.; Ahmad, A.; Siyal, S.H.; Asim, I.; Luque, R.; Albaqami, M.D.; Tighezza, A.M. ZnO Nano-Flowers Assembled on Carbon Fiber Textile for High-Performance Supercapacitor’s Electrode. Coatings 2021, 11, 1337. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings11111337
Abbas Q, Javed MS, Ahmad A, Siyal SH, Asim I, Luque R, Albaqami MD, Tighezza AM. ZnO Nano-Flowers Assembled on Carbon Fiber Textile for High-Performance Supercapacitor’s Electrode. Coatings. 2021; 11(11):1337. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings11111337
Chicago/Turabian StyleAbbas, Qasim, Muhammad Sufyan Javed, Awais Ahmad, Sajid Hussain Siyal, Idrees Asim, Rafael Luque, Munirah D. Albaqami, and Ammar Mohamed Tighezza. 2021. "ZnO Nano-Flowers Assembled on Carbon Fiber Textile for High-Performance Supercapacitor’s Electrode" Coatings 11, no. 11: 1337. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings11111337