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Characterization of Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion and Sodium Ion Batteries Using Synchrotron Radiation Techniques
Published on: November 11, 2013
Lithium iron borates as high-capacity battery electrodes
Atsuo Yamada1, Nobuyuki Iwane, Yu Harada
1Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Building 5-607, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan. yamada@chemsys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|June 11, 2010
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