Layered SiC sheets: A potential catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, P ^a,b   Xiao, B B ^a   Hou, X L ^a,b   Zhu, Y F ^a   Jiang, Q ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84893017019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03821     Document Type: Article

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