Germanium microflower-on-nanostem as a high-performance lithium ion battery electrode

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lee, Gwang Hee ^a,c   Kwon, S Joon ^a   Park, Kyung Soo ^a   Kang, Jin Gu ^a   Park, Jae Gwan ^a   Lee, Sungjun ^b   Kim, Jae Chan ^c   Shim, Hyun Woo ^c   Kim, Dong Wan ^c  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84924248868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06883     Document Type: Article

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