Graphene-Co3O4 nanocomposite as electrocatalyst with high performance for oxygen evolution reaction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhao, Yufei ^a,b   Chen, Shuangqiang ^a   Sun, Bing ^a   Su, Dawei ^a   Huang, Xiaodan ^a   Liu, Hao ^a   Yan, Yiming ^b   Sun, Kening ^b   Wang, Guoxiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84942938767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07629     Document Type: Article

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