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Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 229(2024)

Multifunctional SnO2 QDs/MXene Heterostructures as Laminar Interlayers for Improved Polysulfide Conversion and Lithium Plating Behavior

Shungui Deng1...2,3, Weiwei Sun4,5, Jiawei Tang5, Mohammad Jafarpour2,3, Frank Nüesch2,3, Jakob Heier2,* and Chuanfang Zhang1,** |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Laboratory for Functional Polymers, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
  • 3Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 4Key Laboratory of Quantum Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, People’s Republic of China
  • 5SEU-FEI Nano-Pico Center, Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People’s Republic of China
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    Shungui Deng, Weiwei Sun, Jiawei Tang, Mohammad Jafarpour, Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Chuanfang Zhang. Multifunctional SnO2 QDs/MXene Heterostructures as Laminar Interlayers for Improved Polysulfide Conversion and Lithium Plating Behavior[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 229

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    Received: Mar. 4, 2024

    Accepted: May. 18, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Heier Jakob (Jakob.heier@empa.ch), Zhang Chuanfang (chuanfang.zhang@scu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-024-01446-w

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