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Wan H, Hu L, Liu X, Zhang Y, Chen G, Zhang N, Ma R. Advanced hematite nanomaterials for newly emerging applications. Chem Sci 2023; 14:2776-2798. [PMID: 36937591 PMCID: PMC10016337 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc00180f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
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Because of the combined merits of rich physicochemical properties, abundance, low toxicity, etc., hematite (α-Fe2O3), one of the most chemically stable compounds based on the transition metal element iron, is endowed with multifunctionalities and has steadily been a research hotspot for decades. Very recently, advanced α-Fe2O3 materials have also been developed for applications in some cutting-edge fields. To reflect this trend, the latest progress in developing α-Fe2O3 materials for newly emerging applications is reviewed with a particular focus on the relationship between composition/nanostructure-induced electronic structure modulation and practical performance. Moreover, perspectives on the critical challenges as well as opportunities for future development of diverse functionalities are also discussed. We believe that this timely review will not only stimulate further increasing interest in α-Fe2O3 materials but also provide a profound understanding and insight into the rational design of other materials based on transition metal elements for various applications.
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- Hao Wan
- Zhongyuan Critical Metals Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University Nanjing 211189 P. R. China
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- Zhongyuan Critical Metals Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 PR China
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University Changsha 410083 PR China
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- Zhongyuan Critical Metals Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University Changsha 410083 PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University Changsha 410083 PR China
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
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The role of mild and hard anodization regimes of iron oxide nanotubes in the photoelectrochemical performance. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Syrek K, Kemona S, Czopor J, Zaraska L, Sulka GD. Photoelectrochemical properties of anodic iron oxide layers. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Baldovi HG. Optimization of α-Fe 2O 3 Nanopillars Diameters for Photoelectrochemical Enhancement of α-Fe 2O 3-TiO 2 Heterojunction. NANOMATERIALS 2021; 11:nano11082019. [PMID: 34443850 PMCID: PMC8399771 DOI: 10.3390/nano11082019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Global warming is pushing the world to seek to green energy sources and hydrogen is a good candidate to substitute fossil fuels in the short term. In future, it is expected that production of hydrogen will be carried out through photo-electrocatalysis. In this way, suitable electrodes that acts as photoanode absorbing the incident light are needed to catalyse water splitting reaction. Hematite (α-Fe2O3) is one of the most attractive semiconductors for this purpose since it is a low-cost material and it has a suitable band gap of 2.1 eV, which allows the absorption of the visible region. Although, hematite has drawbacks such as low carrier mobility and short holes diffusion lengths, that here it has been tried to overcome by nanoengineering the material, and by using a semiconductor as a scaffold that enhances charge carrier separation processes in the electrode. In this work, we fabricate ultrathin quasi transparent electrodes composed by highly ordered and self-standing hematite nanopillars of a few tens of nanometers length on FTO and TiO2 supports. Photoanodes were fabricated utilizing electron beam evaporation technique and anodized aluminum oxide templates with well-defined pores diameters. Thus, the activity of the compact layer hematite photoanode is compared with the photoanodes fabricated with nanopillars of controllable diameters (i.e., 90, 260 and 400 nm) to study their influence on charge separation processes. Results indicated that optimal α-Fe2O3 photoanodes performance are obtained when nanopillars reach hundreds of nanometers in diameter, achieving for photoanodes with 400 nm nanopillars onto TiO2 supports the highest photocurrent density values.
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- Herme G Baldovi
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK
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Zinc-doped iron oxide nanostructures for enhanced photocatalytic and antimicrobial applications. J APPL ELECTROCHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10800-020-01512-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Xiao J, Fan L, Huang Z, Zhong J, Zhao F, Xu K, Zhou SF, Zhan G. Functional principle of the synergistic effect of co-loaded Co-Pi and FeOOH on Fe2O3 photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water oxidation. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2067(20)63618-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Xue Y, Wang Y. A review of the α-Fe 2O 3 (hematite) nanotube structure: recent advances in synthesis, characterization, and applications. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:10912-10932. [PMID: 32412037 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr02705g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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α-Fe2O3 nanotubes are exceptional one-dimensional transition metal oxide materials with low density, large surface area, promising electrochemical and photoelectrochemical properties, which are widely investigated in lithium-ion batteries, photoelectrochemical devices, gas sensors, and catalysis. They have drawn significant attention to the fields of energy storage and conversion, and environmental sensing and remediation due to the increase in the global energy crisis and environmental pollution. Many efforts have been made toward controlling the morphology or impurity doping to improve the intrinsic properties of α-Fe2O3 nanotubes. In this review, we introduce the synthesis methods and physicochemical properties of α-Fe2O3 nanotubes. The fabrication conditions, which are important for the physicochemical properties of materials, are also listed to describe the synthesis processes. Furthermore, the development and breakthrough of various applications in batteries, supercapacitors, photoelectrochemical devices, environmental remediation, and sensors are systematically reviewed. Finally, some of the current challenges and future perspectives for α-Fe2O3 nanotubes are discussed. We believe that this timely and critical mini-review will stimulate extensive studies and attract more attention, further improving the development of the α-Fe2O3 (hematite) nanotube structure.
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- Yudong Xue
- College of Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Republic of Korea.
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China.
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Kasimayan U, Nadarajan A, Singaravelu CM, Pan GT, Kandasamy J, Yang TCK, Lin JH. In-situ DRIFT investigation of photocatalytic reduction and oxidation properties of SiO 2@α-Fe 2O 3 core-shell decorated RGO nanocomposite. Sci Rep 2020; 10:2128. [PMID: 32034243 PMCID: PMC7005791 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59037-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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In this work, SiO2@α-Fe2O3 core-shell decorated RGO nanocomposites were prepared via a simple sol-gel method. The nanocomposites were prepared with different weight percentages (10, 30, and 50 wt %) of the SiO2@α-Fe2O3 core-shell on RGO, and the effects on the structural and optical properties were identified. The photocatalytic reduction and oxidation properties of the nanocomposites in the gas phase were assessed through the reduction of CO2 and oxidation of ethanol using in-situ diffuse-reflectance infrared fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFT). The prepared nanocomposite with (30 wt %) of SiO2@α-Fe2O3 showed superior photocatalytic activity for the gas phase reduction of CO2 and oxidation of ethanol. Enhancement in the activity was also perceived when the light irradiation was coupled with thermal treatment. The DRIFT results for the nanocomposites indicate the active chemical conversion kinetics of the redox catalytic effect in the reduction of CO2 and oxidation of ethanol. Further, the evaluation of photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction performance of nanocomposites was acquired by linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), and the results showed a significant improvement in the onset-potential (–0.58 V) for the RGO (30 wt %)-SiO2@α-Fe2O3 nanocomposite.
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- Uma Kasimayan
- Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 106
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 106
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 106
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 106.
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- Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 106.
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Iron oxide nanostructures for photoelectrochemical applications: Effect of applied potential during Fe anodization. J IND ENG CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2018.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Jia A, Zhang X, Li F, Wang Y. Facile fabrication of sponge-like hierarchically porous Ni,La–SrTiO 3 templated by in situ generated carbon deposits and the enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj00613c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Hierarchical pore-induced multiple internal reflections and/or scattering of light improves the capability of light trapping and thus photocatalytic efficiency.
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- Aizhong Jia
- Hebei Provincial Key Lab of Green Chemical Technology & High Efficient Energy Saving
- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology
- Hebei University of Technology
- Tianjin
- P. R. China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Lab of Green Chemical Technology & High Efficient Energy Saving
- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology
- Hebei University of Technology
- Tianjin
- P. R. China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Lab of Green Chemical Technology & High Efficient Energy Saving
- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology
- Hebei University of Technology
- Tianjin
- P. R. China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Lab of Green Chemical Technology & High Efficient Energy Saving
- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology
- Hebei University of Technology
- Tianjin
- P. R. China
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Jiang Q, Li Q, Li J, Li A, Cong R, Si W, Li Z. A Real‐Time Electrochemical Impedance Analysis for Water‐In‐Oil Emulsions of Bitumen Diluted with Naphtha. ChemistrySelect 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201702633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Qiuyan Jiang
- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShandong University of Technology Zibo Shandong 255049 (P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShandong University of Technology Zibo Shandong 255049 (P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShandong University of Technology Zibo Shandong 255049 (P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShandong University of Technology Zibo Shandong 255049 (P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShandong University of Technology Zibo Shandong 255049 (P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShandong University of Technology Zibo Shandong 255049 (P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShandong University of Technology Zibo Shandong 255049 (P.R. China
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Phuan YW, Ong WJ, Chong MN, Ocon JD. Prospects of electrochemically synthesized hematite photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting: A review. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2017.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Xiao J, Huang H, Huang Q, Zhao L, Li X, Hou X, Chen H, Li Y. Suppressing the electron–hole recombination rate in hematite photoanode with a rapid cooling treatment. J Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2017.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Abdul Rashid NM, Haw C, Chiu W, Khanis NH, Rohaizad A, Khiew P, Abdul Rahman S. Structural- and optical-properties analysis of single crystalline hematite (α-Fe2O3) nanocubes prepared by one-pot hydrothermal approach. CrystEngComm 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ce00573j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Time-dependent morphological evolution analysis shows high quality crystalline α-Fe2O3 nanocubes can be precisely tuned and synthesized by a facile, green, yet straightforward strategy via a hydrothermal method.
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- Nur Maisarah Abdul Rashid
- Low Dimensional Materials Research Centre
- Department of Physics
- University of Malaya
- 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Low Dimensional Materials Research Centre
- Department of Physics
- University of Malaya
- 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Low Dimensional Materials Research Centre
- Department of Physics
- University of Malaya
- 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Low Dimensional Materials Research Centre
- Department of Physics
- University of Malaya
- 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Low Dimensional Materials Research Centre
- Department of Physics
- University of Malaya
- 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
- 43500 Semenyih, Malaysia
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- Low Dimensional Materials Research Centre
- Department of Physics
- University of Malaya
- 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Pareek A, Paik P, Borse PH. Stable hydrogen generation from Ni- and Co-based co-catalysts in supported CdS PEC cell. Dalton Trans 2016; 45:11120-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c6dt01277a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Schematic summarizing CdS photoanode modification by nano Ni(OH)2, NiO, Co(OH)2, and Co3O4 water-oxidation co-catalysts resulting in enhancement of stability of photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell electrodes for >8 h. The NiO modified photoanode yields large PEC H2-evolution of 2.5 mmol h−1.
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- Alka Pareek
- International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials
- Hyderabad
- India
- School of Engineering Science and Technology
- University of Hyderabad
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- School of Engineering Science and Technology
- University of Hyderabad
- Hyderabad-500046
- India
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- International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials
- Hyderabad
- India
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Xue Y, Jin W, Du H, Wang S, Zheng S, Zhang Y. Tuning α-Fe2O3 nanotube arrays for the oxygen reduction reaction in alkaline media. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra06422a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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α-Fe2O3 nanotube arrays were fabricated and employed as low cost non-noble electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). As-prepared α-Fe2O3 nanotube arrays exhibit excellent ORR catalytic activity and durability in alkaline media.
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- Yudong Xue
- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
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