“Zero-Strain” NiNb2O6 Fibers for All-Climate Lithium Storage

Yan Zhao; Qiang Yuan; Liting Yang; Guisheng Liang; Yifeng Cheng; Limin Wu; Chunfu Lin; Renchao Che

doi:10.1007/s40820-024-01497-z

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 17, Issue 1, 015(2025)

“Zero-Strain” NiNb2O6 Fibers for All-Climate Lithium Storage

Yan Zhao^1,2, Qiang Yuan², Liting Yang³, Guisheng Liang³, Yifeng Cheng⁴, Limin Wu^5、*, Chunfu Lin^1,2、**, and Renchao Che^1,3,4、***

Author Affiliations

¹College of Physics, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People’s Republic of China

²School of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Energy and Environment, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, People’s Republic of China

³Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, People’s Republic of China

⁴Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, 311100, People’s Republic of China

⁵Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, People’s Republic of China

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Yan Zhao, Qiang Yuan, Liting Yang, Guisheng Liang, Yifeng Cheng, Limin Wu, Chunfu Lin, Renchao Che. “Zero-Strain” NiNb2O6 Fibers for All-Climate Lithium Storage[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2025, 17(1): 015

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Received: May. 4, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 5, 2024

Published Online: Feb. 12, 2025

The Author Email: Wu Limin (wlm@imu.edu.cn), Lin Chunfu (linchunfu@dhu.edu.cn), Che Renchao (rcche@fudan.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-024-01497-z

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