Corn-distillers-derived hard carbon: a sustainable high-rate, long-life anode for sodium-ion batteries
- Corresponding author: Weilai Yu, weilai.yu@utoronto.ca Tao Liu, liutao54@cug.edu.cn
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Xue Zhang, Zihan He, Yingqi Wu, Weilai Yu, Tao Liu. Corn-distillers-derived hard carbon: a sustainable high-rate, long-life anode for sodium-ion batteries[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica,
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