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    Journals >Nano-Micro Letters >Volume 15 >Issue 1 >Page 203 > Article
    • Nano-Micro Letters
    • Vol. 15, Issue 1, 203 (2023)
    Nanoengineering Metal–Organic Frameworks and Derivatives for Electrosynthesis of Ammonia
    Daming Feng1, Lixue Zhou1, Timothy J. White2, Anthony K. Cheetham3, Tianyi Ma4、*, and Fengxia Wei5、**
    Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, People’s Republic of China
  • 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
  • 3Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
  • 4School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
  • 5Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis 08-03, Singapore 138634, Singapore
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    DOI: 10.1007/s40820-023-01169-4 Cite this Article
    Daming Feng, Lixue Zhou, Timothy J. White, Anthony K. Cheetham, Tianyi Ma, Fengxia Wei. Nanoengineering Metal–Organic Frameworks and Derivatives for Electrosynthesis of Ammonia[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 203 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Daming Feng, Lixue Zhou, Timothy J. White, Anthony K. Cheetham, Tianyi Ma, Fengxia Wei. Nanoengineering Metal–Organic Frameworks and Derivatives for Electrosynthesis of Ammonia[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 203
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