Single crystalline Co3O4 nanocrystals exposed with different crystal planes for Li-o2 batteries

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Su, Dawei ^a,b   Dou, Shixue ^a   Wang, Guoxiu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84906815271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05767     Document Type: Article

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