Simultaneous synthesis of bimetallic@3D graphene electrocatalyst for HER and OER

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21676129) and the Science & Technology Foundation of Zhenjiang (GY2016021, GY2017001 and YE201709).

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