Hydrogel-derived non-precious electrocatalysts for efficient oxygen reduction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  You, Bo ^a   Yin, Peiqun ^a   Zhang, Junli ^a   He, Daping ^a   Chen, Gaoli ^a   Kang, Fei ^a   Wang, Huiqiao ^a   Deng, Zhaoxiang ^a   Li, Yadong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84935070127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11739     Document Type: Article

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