A cheap and non-destructive approach to increase coverage/loading of hydrophilic hydroxide on hydrophobic carbon for lightweight and high-performance supercapacitors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Liuyang ^a   Gong, Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84949501439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18108     Document Type: Article

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