High-Performance Flexible Solid-State Carbon Cloth Supercapacitors Based on Highly Processible N-Graphene Doped Polyacrylic Acid/Polyaniline Composites

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Yongguang ^a   Tang, Shaochun ^a   Vongehr, Sascha ^a   Ali Syed, Junaid ^a   Wang, Xiangyu ^a   Meng, Xiangkang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84958576717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12883     Document Type: Article

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