Facile synthesis of novel graphene sponge for high performance capacitive deionization

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xu, Xingtao ^a   Pan, Likun ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Lu, Ting ^a   Sun, Zhuo ^a   Chua, Daniel H C ^b  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84931280179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08458     Document Type: Article

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