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Pengqi Chen, Yunxiao Tai, Huan Wu, Yufei Gao, Jiayu Chen, and Jigui Cheng, Novel confinement combustion method of nanosized WC/C for efficient electrocatalytic oxygen reduction, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 29(2022), No. 8, pp. 1627-1634. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-021-2265-7 |
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