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Shuting Huang1, Qiuyuan Ren1, Tianxing Zhang1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Bioinspired Interfacial Materials Science, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, P. R. China.

Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|December 19, 2025
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Keywords:
CO2 conversionbiohybridcarbonic anhydrasedimethyl carbonatephotosynthesis

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