Interconnecting carbon fibers with the in-situ electrochemically exfoliated graphene as advanced binder-free electrode materials for flexible supercapacitor

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zou, Yuqin ^a,b   Wang, Shuangyin ^a,b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84936075127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11792     Document Type: Article

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