A new strategy for integrating abundant oxygen functional groups into carbon felt electrode for vanadium redox flow batteries

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kim, Ki Jae ^a   Lee, Seung Wook ^a   Yim, Taeeun ^a   Kim, Jae Geun ^a   Choi, Jang Wook ^b   Kim, Jung Ho ^c   Park, Min Sik ^a   Kim, Young Jun ^a  

^a Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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EID: 84940443239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06906     Document Type: Article

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