Facile Synthesis of Carbon Nanosphere/NiCo2O4 Core-shell Sub-microspheres for High Performance Supercapacitor

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Delong ^a   Gong, Youning ^a   Zhang, Yupeng ^a,b   Luo, Chengzhi ^a   Li, Weiping ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a   Pan, Chunxu ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84938686573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12903     Document Type: Article

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