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ShanghaiTech University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto Ontario M5S 3G4 Canada

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Chih-Shan Tan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada

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Yuhang Wang, Cao-Thang Dinh, Jun Li, et al. (2019). Catalyst synthesis under CO2 electroreduction favours faceting and promotes renewable fuels electrosynthesis. Nature Catalysis, 3(2), 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0397-1

Catalyst synthesis under CO2 electroreduction favours faceting and promotes renewable fuels electrosynthesis

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