Highly efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysts based on winged carbon nanotubes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cheng, Yingwen ^a   Zhang, Hongbo ^a   Varanasi, Chakrapani V ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

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EID: 84887832144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03195     Document Type: Article

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