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Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 001(2024)

Layered Potassium Titanium Niobate/Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite as a Potassium-Ion Battery Anode

Charlie A. F. Nason... Ajay Piriya Vijaya Kumar Saroja, Yi Lu, Runzhe Wei, Yupei Han and Yang Xu* |Show fewer author(s)

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Charlie A. F. Nason, Ajay Piriya Vijaya Kumar Saroja, Yi Lu, Runzhe Wei, Yupei Han, Yang Xu. Layered Potassium Titanium Niobate/Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite as a Potassium-Ion Battery Anode[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 001

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Received: Jun. 29, 2023

Accepted: Sep. 24, 2023

Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

The Author Email: Xu Yang (y.xu.1@ucl.ac.uk)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01222-2

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