Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Porous NiCo2O4 Microspheres: Application as High Performance Asymmetric and Symmetric Supercapacitors with Large Areal Capacitance

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Khalid, Syed ^a   Cao, Chuanbao ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Zhu, Youqi ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84960118103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22699     Document Type: Article

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