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Xuan Liu, Gaoyang Liu, Jilai Xue, Xindong Wang, and Qingfeng Li, Hydrogen as a carrier of renewable energies toward carbon neutrality: State-of-the-art and challenging issues, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 29(2022), No. 5, pp. 1073-1089. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-022-2449-9 |
Xuan Liu E-mail: xuanliu@ustb.edu.cn
Qingfeng Li E-mail: qfli@dtu.dk
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