• Nano-Micro Letters
  • Vol. 16, Issue 1, 053 (2024)
Xueqiu You1, Dongao Zhang2, Xia-Guang Zhang3, Xiangyu Li1..., Jing-Hua Tian4, Yao-Hui Wang2,* and Jian-Feng Li2,4,**|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Ocean Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Oceanic Information Perception and Intelligent Processing, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, People’s Republic of China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials, College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, People’s Republic of China
  • 4Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, People’s Republic of China
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    Xueqiu You, Dongao Zhang, Xia-Guang Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Jing-Hua Tian, Yao-Hui Wang, Jian-Feng Li. Exploring the Cation Regulation Mechanism for Interfacial Water Involved in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by In Situ Raman Spectroscopy[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 053 Copy Citation Text show less
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