• Facile Fabrication of Collector-Free Supercapacitors Based on Silver Nanowire–Activated Carbon Composites

  • Myounggun Kim*, **,# , Seung-Yul Lee*, **,# , Moon Jong Han***, ****, Da-Seul Kim*, **,† , and Ju-Hyung Kim*, **,†

  • *Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
    **Department of Chemical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
    ***Department of Semiconductor & Electronic Engineering, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Korea
    ****School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States

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This Article

  • 2026; 50(1): 161-166

    Published online Jan 25, 2026

  • 10.7317/pk.2026.50.1.161
  • Received on Sep 8, 2025
  • Revised on Oct 7, 2025
  • Accepted on Oct 11, 2025

Correspondence to

  • Da-Seul Kim*, ** , and Ju-Hyung Kim*, **

  • *Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
    **Department of Chemical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea

  • E-mail: kimda313@ajou.ac.kr, juhyungkim@ajou.ac.kr