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    Journals >Nano-Micro Letters >Volume 16 >Issue 1 >Page 089 > Article
    • Nano-Micro Letters
    • Vol. 16, Issue 1, 089 (2024)
    Enhancing Green Ammonia Electrosynthesis Through Tuning Sn Vacancies in Sn-Based MXene/MAX Hybrids
    Xinyu Dai1,†, Zhen-Yi Du2,†, Ying Sun1,*, Ping Chen3..., Xiaoguang Duan4, Junjun Zhang5, Hui Li6, Yang Fu6, Baohua Jia6, Lei Zhang7, Wenhui Fang8, Jieshan Qiu8,** and Tianyi Ma6,***|Show fewer author(s)
    Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory for Green Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry of Advanced Materials of Liaoning Province, College of Chemistry, Institute of Clean Energy Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, People’s Republic of China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Clean and Efficient Coal Utilization, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, People’s Republic of China
  • 3School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, People’s Republic of China
  • 4School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  • 5State Key Laboratory of High-Efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021 Ningxia, People’s Republic of China
  • 6School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
  • 7Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, People’s Republic of China
  • 8College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s40820-023-01303-2 Cite this Article
    Xinyu Dai, Zhen-Yi Du, Ying Sun, Ping Chen, Xiaoguang Duan, Junjun Zhang, Hui Li, Yang Fu, Baohua Jia, Lei Zhang, Wenhui Fang, Jieshan Qiu, Tianyi Ma. Enhancing Green Ammonia Electrosynthesis Through Tuning Sn Vacancies in Sn-Based MXene/MAX Hybrids[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 089 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Xinyu Dai, Zhen-Yi Du, Ying Sun, Ping Chen, Xiaoguang Duan, Junjun Zhang, Hui Li, Yang Fu, Baohua Jia, Lei Zhang, Wenhui Fang, Jieshan Qiu, Tianyi Ma. Enhancing Green Ammonia Electrosynthesis Through Tuning Sn Vacancies in Sn-Based MXene/MAX Hybrids[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 089
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