Thermal Flow Self-Assembled Anisotropic Chemically Derived Graphene Aerogels and Their Thermal Conductivity

Jinhui Huang1, Buning Zhang2, Paolo Valdiserri3

  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.

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