Merging of kirkendall growth and ostwald ripening: CuO@MnO2 core-shell architectures for asymmetric supercapacitors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Huang, Ming ^a   Zhang, Yuxin ^a   Li, Fei ^a,b   Wang, Zhongchang ^a   Alamusi, ^a   Hu, Ning ^a   Wen, Zhiyu ^a   Liu, Qing ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84897398955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04518     Document Type: Article

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