Hierarchical one-dimensional ammonium nickel phosphate microrods for high-performance pseudocapacitors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Raju, Kumar ^a   Ozoemena, Kenneth I ^a,b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 84949293476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17629     Document Type: Article

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