Ultrahigh Performance of Novel Capacitive Deionization Electrodes based on A Three-Dimensional Graphene Architecture with Nanopores

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Shi, Wenhui ^a   Li, Haibo ^a   Cao, Xiehong ^b,c   Leong, Zhi Yi ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a,d   Chen, Tupei ^d   Zhang, Hua ^b   Yang, Hui Ying ^a  

^a SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 84953301929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18966     Document Type: Article

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