Facile fabrication of various zinc-nickel citrate microspheres and their transformation to ZnO-NiO hybrid microspheres with excellent lithium storage properties

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xie, Qingshui ^a   Ma, Yating ^a   Zeng, Deqian ^a   Wang, Laisen ^a   Yue, Guanghui ^a   Peng, Dong Liang ^a  

^a Fujian Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials Department of Materials Science and Engineering ^*  (China)

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EID: 84923326144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08351     Document Type: Article

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