Nanoparticle Decorated Ultrathin Porous Nanosheets as Hierarchical Co3O4 Nanostructures for Lithium Ion Battery Anode Materials

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mujtaba, Jawayria ^a   Sun, Hongyu ^a,b   Huang, Guoyong ^a,c   Mølhave, Kristian ^b   Liu, Yanguo ^d   Zhao, Yanyan ^a   Wang, Xun ^a   Xu, Shengming ^a   Zhu, Jing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY AT QINHUANGDAO   (China)

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EID: 84957604132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20592     Document Type: Article

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