Carbon-based metal-free catalysts

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Liu, Xien ^a   Dai, Liming ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

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EID: 85014948546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.64     Document Type: Review

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