Au-NiCo2O4 supported on three-dimensional hierarchical porous graphene-like material for highly effective oxygen evolution reaction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Xia, Wei Yan ^a   Li, Nan ^a   Li, Qing Yu ^b   Ye, Kai Hang ^c   Xu, Chang Wei ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84961625665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23398     Document Type: Article

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