Organic liquid electrolyte for low-temperature sodium-ion batteries
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E-mail addresses: xunzhuzhou@ahu.edu.cn (X. Zhou), chou@wzu.edu.cn (S.-L. Chou), linli@wzu.edu.cn (L. Li).
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Xiaosa Zhang, Shanghao Zhou, Xiaomin Chen, Xu Xu, Xiaoyan Shi, Zhiming Zhou, Yun Wan, Xinhui Zeng, Xunzhu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Shu-Lei Chou, Lin Li. Organic liquid electrolyte for low-temperature sodium-ion batteries[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters,
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