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Impact of Sodium Fluorosulfonyl(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide Salt on Interfacial Ordering of 1‐Methyl‐1‐Propylpyrrolidinium Fluorosulfonyl(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide Ionic Liquid near Graphite Electrodes at Different Applied Potentials

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Exploring the Impact of In Situ-Formed Solid–Electrolyte Interphase on the Cycling Performance of Aluminum Metal Anodes

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Carbonate Ester‐Based Sodium Metal Battery with High‐Capacity Retention at −50 °C Enabled by Weak Solvents and Electrodeposited Anode

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Carbon dots promoting surface defect and interphase high anion concentration for sodium-ion battery carbon anodes

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Self-discharge suppression by composite regenerated cellulose ion-selective separator for high-energy aqueous supercapacitors

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International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2024, 276, 133896
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Electrolyte Anions Suppress Hydrogen Generation in Electrochemical CO Reduction on Cu

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Angewandte Chemie, 2025, 137
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Enhanced sodium storage in hard carbon via solvent co-intercalation electrolyte enabling Ah-level pouch cells at low temperatures

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Ionic Liquids Electrolytes for High Performance Sodium Batteries—Chemistry, Composition, and Interfaces

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Advanced Energy Materials, 2026
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An Electrolyte with Less Space‐Occupying Diluent at Cathode Inner Helmholtz Plane for Stable 4.6 V Lithium‐Ion Batteries

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Angew Chem Int Ed, 2024, 63
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Carbonate Ester‐Based Sodium Metal Battery with High‐Capacity Retention at −50 °C Enabled by Weak Solvents and Electrodeposited Anode

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Low‐Temperature‐Resistant Sodium‐Metal Batteries Enabled by Amphiphilic Diluent‐Enhanced Electrolyte Design

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Non-solvating additives for high-voltage sodium metal batteries

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Binary metal-organic framework-on-metal-organic framework-derived MoS2/CoS2 wrapped with N and S heteroatom co-doped reduced graphene oxide heterostructure as a prospective anode material for Na ion storage

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Sodium-ion Batteries: A comprehensive review of materials chemistry, interfacial challenges, and industrialization progress

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Systematic Investigation of Classical Molecular Dynamics Models for Ionic Liquid‐Based Electrolytes at Electrode Interfaces

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Research on the novel spinel structure of Cu0.5Ni0.5MnCoO4 and its application in solid oxide fuel cells

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Overcoming the Electrolyte-Derived Interphase Through Sequential Reactions for Stable Lithium Metal Anode

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Nitrogen electroreduction to ammonia with phosphonium proton shuttles: Mass-transport vs. electrode surface chemistry effects

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Chem, 2024, 10, 3622
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