Flower-like Palladium Nanoclusters Decorated Graphene Electrodes for Ultrasensitive and Flexible Hydrogen Gas Sensing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shin, Dong Hoon ^a   Lee, Jun Seop ^a   Jun, Jaemoon ^a   An, Ji Hyun ^a   Kim, Sung Gun ^a   Cho, Kyung Hee ^a   Jang, Jyongsik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84937935765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12294     Document Type: Article

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