Water Amount Dependence on Morphologies and Properties of ZnO nanostructures in Double-solvent System

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yin, Jinzhou ^a,b,c   Gao, Feng ^a   Wei, Chengzhen ^a,b   Lu, Qingyi ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUAIYIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84892714213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03736     Document Type: Article

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