Assembling carbon quantum dots to a layered carbon for high-density supercapacitor electrodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chen, Guanxiong ^a   Wu, Shuilin ^a   Hui, Liwei ^a   Zhao, Yuan ^a   Ye, Jianglin ^a   Tan, Ziqi ^a   Zeng, Wencong ^a   Tao, Zhuchen ^a   Yang, Lihua ^a   Zhu, Yanwu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84954481357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19028     Document Type: Article

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