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Yifan Li

Department of Orthopedics The First Affiliated Hospital College of Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou China

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada

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Michael B. Ross, Phil De Luna, Yifan Li, et al. (2019). Designing materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide recycling. Nature Catalysis, 2(8), 648-658. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0306-7

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