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Vol. 16, Issue 1, 275 (2024)

Enhancing the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Through Cascade Structure Tuning for Highly Stable Biomass Upgrading

Xiaoli Jiang¹, Xianhui Ma², Yuanteng Yang¹, Yang Liu¹..., Yanxia Liu¹, Lin Zhao¹, Penglei Wang¹, Yagang Zhang^1,*, Yue Lin^2,** and Yen Wei^3,4,***|Show fewer author(s)

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¹School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, People’s Republic of China

²Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China

³The Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China

⁴School of Materials Science and Engineering, North Minzu University, Yinchuan 750021, People’s Republic of China

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Xiaoli Jiang, Xianhui Ma, Yuanteng Yang, Yang Liu, Yanxia Liu, Lin Zhao, Penglei Wang, Yagang Zhang, Yue Lin, Yen Wei. Enhancing the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Through Cascade Structure Tuning for Highly Stable Biomass Upgrading[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 275 Copy Citation Text

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