High-performance transparent and stretchable all-solid supercapacitors based on highly aligned carbon nanotube sheets

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Tao ^a   Peng, Huisheng ^b   Durstock, Michael ^c   Dai, Liming ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84891949072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03612     Document Type: Article

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