Microwave-assisted synthesis of NiS2 nanostructures for supercapacitors and cocatalytic enhancing photocatalytic H2 production

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue SREP03577, 2014, Pages

  Pang, Huan ^a,b   Wei, Chengzhen ^a   Li, Xuexue ^a   Li, Guochang ^a   Ma, Yahui ^a   Li, Sujuan ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Zhang, Jiangshan ^a  

^a ANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84891801416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03577     Document Type: Article

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