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C. O'Dwyer, V. Lavayen, M. A. Santa Ana, E. Benavente, G. González, C. M. Sotomayor Torres, "Anisotropic Vanadium Oxide Nanostructured Host Matrices for Lithium Ion Intercalation", Advances in Physical Chemistry, vol. 2007, Article ID 032528, 5 pages, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/32528
Anisotropic Vanadium Oxide Nanostructured Host Matrices for Lithium Ion Intercalation
Abstract
We report on unique high-volume low-dimensional
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