Free-standing Fe2O3 nanomembranes enabling ultra-long cycling life and high rate capability for Li-ion batteries

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Xianghong ^a   Si, Wenping ^a,b   Zhang, Jun ^d   Sun, Xiaolei ^a,b   Deng, Junwen ^a,b   Baunack, Stefan ^a   Oswald, Steffen ^a   Liu, Lifeng ^e   Yan, Chenglin ^a,c   Schmidt, Oliver G ^a,b  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^e INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

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EID: 84938354207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07452     Document Type: Article

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