Copper Salts Mediated Morphological Transformation of Cu2O from Cubes to Hierarchical Flower-like or Microspheres and Their Supercapacitors Performances

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Liang ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Zhu, Pengli ^a   Zhou, Fengrui ^a   Zeng, Wenjin ^b   Lu, Daoqiang Daniel ^a   Sun, Rong ^a   Wong, Chingping ^a,c,d  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84927597133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09672     Document Type: Article

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