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Knowing when small is better

Nature Nanotechnology volume 9, pages 962–963 (2014)Cite this article

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A battery fabricated within a ceramic nanopore can be used for studying nanoscale electrochemical effects.

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Figure 1: Comparison between the all-in-one nanopore battery and a colloidally templated nanostructured battery.

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  1. Paul V. Braun and Ralph G. Nuzzo are at the Fredrick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA,

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