Research progress on MOF-based electrocatalysts for the urea oxidation reaction
- Corresponding author: Min YU, minyu@njxzc.edu.cn
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Enqi CHEN, Xinyi MA, Xiang HAN, Yutong YE, Kexin QIN, Shenghui LI, Changli ZHANG, Min YU, Changyun CHEN. Research progress on MOF-based electrocatalysts for the urea oxidation reaction[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry,
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