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Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 1, 200(2023)

Trimming the Degrees of Freedom via a K+ Flux Rectifier for Safe and Long-Life Potassium-Ion Batteries

Xianhui Yi1... Apparao M. Rao2, Jiang Zhou3, and Bingan Lu14,* |Show fewer author(s)

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¹School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, People’s Republic of China

²Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson Nanomaterials Institute, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA

³School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, People’s Republic of China

⁴State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, People’s Republic of China

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Xianhui Yi, Apparao M. Rao, Jiang Zhou, Bingan Lu. Trimming the Degrees of Freedom via a K+ Flux Rectifier for Safe and Long-Life Potassium-Ion Batteries[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 200

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Received: May. 23, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 21, 2023

Published Online: Dec. 15, 2023

The Author Email: Lu Bingan (luba2012@hnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01178-3

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