Nucleation Regulation and Mechanism of Precursors for Nickel Cobalt Manganese-based Cathode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Corresponding author: Xifei Li, xfli@xaut.edu.cn †These authors contributed equally to this work.
 
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		            Jiaxuan Zuo, Kun Zhang, Jing Wang, Xifei Li. Nucleation Regulation and Mechanism of Precursors for Nickel Cobalt Manganese-based Cathode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica,
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