Novel nitrogen doped graphene sponge with ultrahigh capacitive deionization performance

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xu, Xingtao ^a   Sun, Zhuo ^a   Chua, Daniel H C ^b   Pan, Likun ^a  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84931281566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11225     Document Type: Article

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