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    Journals >Nano-Micro Letters >Volume 16 >Issue 1 >Page 035 > Article
    • Nano-Micro Letters
    • Vol. 16, Issue 1, 035 (2024)
    Electrolyte Design for Low-Temperature Li-Metal Batteries: Challenges and Prospects
    Siyu Sun1,2, Kehan Wang2, Zhanglian Hong2, Mingjia Zhi2..., Kai Zhang3,* and Jijian Xu1,4,**|Show fewer author(s)
    Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, People’s Republic of China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Power Sources, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People’s Republic of China
  • 4Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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    DOI: 10.1007/s40820-023-01245-9 Cite this Article
    Siyu Sun, Kehan Wang, Zhanglian Hong, Mingjia Zhi, Kai Zhang, Jijian Xu. Electrolyte Design for Low-Temperature Li-Metal Batteries: Challenges and Prospects[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 035 Copy Citation Text show less
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