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Flexible and weaveable capacitor wire based on a carbon nanocomposite fiber

Jing Ren1, Wenyu Bai, Guozhen Guan

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.

Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|August 20, 2013
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