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Wenjing Xu

Energy & Catalysis Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom

Energy & Catalysis Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

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Huishan Shang

School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Advanced Separation Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, P. R. China

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Wenjing Xu, Yidong Sun, Jiaqi Zhou, et al. (2022). Coordinatively unsaturated single Co atoms immobilized on C2N for efficient oxygen reduction reaction. Nano Research, 16(2), 2294-2301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5212-7

Coordinatively unsaturated single Co atoms immobilized on C2N for efficient oxygen reduction reaction

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