Spontaneous reduction and assembly of graphene oxide into three-dimensional graphene network on arbitrary conductive substrates

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hu, Chuangang ^a   Zhai, Xiangquan ^a   Liu, Lili ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a   Jiang, Lan ^a   Qu, Liangti ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84899471249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02065     Document Type: Article

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