Asymmetric Electrolytes Design for Aqueous Multivalent Metal Ion Batteries

Xiaochen Yang; Xinyu Wang; Yue Xiang; Longtao Ma; Wei Huang

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01256-6

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 051(2024)

Asymmetric Electrolytes Design for Aqueous Multivalent Metal Ion Batteries

Xiaochen Yang1... Xinyu Wang1, Yue Xiang1, Longtao Ma2,* and Wei Huang1,** |Show fewer author(s)

¹Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China

²School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, People’s Republic of China

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Jul. 20, 2023

Accepted: Oct. 19, 2023

Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

The Author Email: Ma Longtao (longtaoma@scut.edu.cn), Huang Wei (hcwhuang@nwpu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01256-6

Topics

laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

Laser physics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology

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