Ultrathin nickel hydroxide and oxide nanosheets: Synthesis, characterizations and excellent supercapacitor performances

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Youqi ^a   Cao, Chuanbao ^a   Tao, Shi ^b   Chu, Wangsheng ^b   Wu, Ziyu ^b   Li, Yadong ^c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84906807400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05787     Document Type: Article

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