Membranes with well-defined ions transport channels fabricated via solvent-responsive layer-by-layer assembly method for vanadium flow battery

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xu, Wanxing ^a,b   Li, Xianfeng ^a   Cao, Jingyu ^a,b   Zhang, Hongzhang ^a   Zhang, Huamin ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 84894220540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04016     Document Type: Article

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