Controllable fabrication and magnetic properties of double-shell cobalt oxides hollow particles

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Dan ^a   Zhu, Jianyu ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Chen, Limiao ^a   Liu, Xiaohe ^a   Ma, Renzhi ^a   Zhang, Haitao ^b   Qiu, Guanzhou ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

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EID: 84924177403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08737     Document Type: Article

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