Nano conductive ceramic wedged graphene composites as highly efficient metal supports for oxygen reduction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wu, Peng ^a   Lv, Haifeng ^a   Peng, Tao ^a   He, Daping ^a   Mu, Shichun ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84893867800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03968     Document Type: Article

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