A Lattice-Oxygen-Involved Reaction Pathway to Boost Urea Oxidation

Longsheng Zhang1, Liping Wang1, Haiping Lin2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.

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