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Ceramics and Nanostructures for Energy Harvesting and Storage
Alexander Tkach1, Olena Okhay2,3
1CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
|November 24, 2023
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In recent years, the worldwide research in the field of energy harvesting and storage has focused on the development of clean and sustainable methods that can respond to the rising energy demands of humankind [...].
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