Novel flower-like nickel sulfide as an efficient electrocatalyst for non-aqueous lithium-air batteries

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ma, Zhong ^a   Yuan, Xianxia ^a   Zhang, Zhenlin ^a   Mei, Delong ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Ma, Zi Feng ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Yang, Jun ^a   Zhang, Jiujun ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 84950114163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18199     Document Type: Article

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