Low temperature vacuum synthesis of triangular CoO nanocrystal/graphene nanosheets composites with enhanced lithium storage capacity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Guan, Qun ^a,b   Cheng, Jianli ^a,b   Li, Xiaodong ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^a,b   Huang, Ling ^a,b   Nie, Fude ^a,b   Ni, Wei ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^b Sichuan RandD Center of New Materials   (China)

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EID: 84929208649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10017     Document Type: Article

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