Original Article
  • Hemp-Derived Carbon Materials for High-Performance Supercapacitors and Batteries

  • Donghyuk Choi*, Siwan Nam*, Jinhoon Kim*, Hyunmin Jeong*, Hui Yun Hwang**†

  • * Department of Mechanical Design Engineering Gyeongkuk National Univeristy
    ** School of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongkuk National Univeristy

  • 고성능 슈퍼커패시터 및 배터리용 대마 유래 탄소 소재

  • 최동혁* · 남시완* · 김진훈* · 정현민* · 황희윤**†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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Correspondence to

  • Hui Yun Hwang

  • School of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongkuk National Univeristy

  • E-mail: hyhwang@gknu.ac.kr