Highly electrically conductive nanocomposites based on polymerinfused graphene sponges

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Yuanqing ^a   Samad, Yarjan Abdul ^a   Polychronopoulou, Kyriaki ^a   Alhassan, Saeed M ^a   Liao, Kin ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

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