Honeycomb-like porous gel polymer electrolyte membrane for lithium ion batteries with enhanced safety

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Jinqiang ^a   Sun, Bing ^a   Huang, Xiaodan ^a   Chen, Shuangqiang ^a   Wang, Guoxiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84906815147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06007     Document Type: Article

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