Paolella, A., Faure, C., Bertoni, G., Marras, S., Guerfi, A., Darwiche, A., Hovington, P., Commarieu, B., Wang, Z., Prato, M., Colombo, M., Monaco, S., Zhu, W., Feng, Z., Vijh, A., George, C., Demopoulos, G. P., Armand, M., & Zaghib, K. (2017). Light-assisted delithiation of lithium iron phosphate nanocrystals towards photo-rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Nature Communications, 8, Article 14643. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14643
Paolella, Andrea ; Faure, Cyril ; Bertoni, Giovanni et al. / Light-assisted delithiation of lithium iron phosphate nanocrystals towards photo-rechargeable lithium ion batteries. In: Nature Communications. 2017 ; Vol. 8.
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Light-assisted delithiation of lithium iron phosphate nanocrystals towards photo-rechargeable lithium ion batteries. / Paolella, Andrea; Faure, Cyril; Bertoni, Giovanni et al.
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