Novel stable hard transparent conductors in TiO2-TiC system: Design materials from scratch

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Meng, Xiangying ^a,b   Liu, Dongyan ^b   Dai, Xuefeng ^b   Pan, Haijun ^a   Wen, Xiaohong ^a   Zuo, Liang ^a   Qin, Gaowu ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84926460895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07503     Document Type: Article

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