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Zhu Y, Zhang Q, Zheng Y, Li G, Gao R, Piao Z, Luo D, Gao RH, Zhang M, Xiao X, Li C, Lao Z, Wang J, Chen Z, Zhou G. Uncoordinated chemistry enables highly conductive and stable electrolyte/filler interfaces for solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2300197120. [PMID: 37018192 PMCID: PMC10104547 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300197120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Composite-polymer-electrolytes (CPEs) embedded with advanced filler materials offer great promise for fast and preferential Li+ conduction. The filler surface chemistry determines the interaction with electrolyte molecules and thus critically regulates the Li+ behaviors at the interfaces. Herein, we probe into the role of electrolyte/filler interfaces (EFI) in CPEs and promote Li+ conduction by introducing an unsaturated coordination Prussian blue analog (UCPBA) filler. Combining scanning transmission X-ray microscope stack imaging studies and first-principle calculations, fast Li+ conduction is revealed only achievable at a chemically stable EFI, which can be established by the unsaturated Co-O coordination in UCPBA to circumvent the side reactions. Moreover, the as-exposed Lewis-acid metal centers in UCPBA efficiently attract the Lewis-base anions of Li salts, which facilitates the Li+ disassociation and enhances its transference number (tLi+). Attributed to these superiorities, the obtained CPEs realize high room-temperature ionic conductivity up to 0.36 mS cm-1 and tLi+ of 0.6, enabling an excellent cyclability of lithium metal electrodes over 4,000 h as well as remarkable capacity retention of 97.6% over 180 cycles at 0.5 C for solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries. This work highlights the crucial role of EFI chemistry in developing highly conductive CPEs and high-performance solid-state batteries.
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- Yanfei Zhu
- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, WaterlooN2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, WaterlooN2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, WaterlooN2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, WaterlooN2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, WaterlooN2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, SKS7N 2V3, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, WaterlooN2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen518055, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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Avila Y, Acevedo-Peña P, Reguera L, Reguera E. Recent progress in transition metal hexacyanometallates: From structure to properties and functionality. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Celorrio V, Leach AS, Huang H, Hayama S, Freeman A, Inwood DW, Fermin DJ, Russell AE. Relationship between Mn Oxidation State Changes and Oxygen Reduction Activity in (La,Ca)MnO 3 as Probed by In Situ XAS and XES. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Veronica Celorrio
- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Diamond House. Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Diamond House. Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Diamond House. Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantocks Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K
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Bhargava A, Eppstein R, Sun J, Smeaton MA, Paik H, Kourkoutis LF, Schlom DG, Caspary Toroker M, Robinson RD. Breakdown of the Small-Polaron Hopping Model in Higher-Order Spinels. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e2004490. [PMID: 33084168 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The small-polaron hopping model has been used for six decades to rationalize electronic charge transport in oxides. The model was developed for binary oxides, and, despite its significance, its accuracy has not been rigorously tested for higher-order oxides. Here, the small-polaron transport model is tested by using a spinel system with mixed cation oxidation states (Mnx Fe3- x O4 ). Using molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE), a series of single crystal Mnx Fe3- x O4 thin films with controlled stoichiometry, 0 ≤ x ≤ 2.3, and lattice strain are grown, and the cation site-occupation is determined through X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES). Density functional theory + U analysis shows that charge transport occurs only between like-cations (Fe/Fe or Mn/Mn). The site-occupation data and percolation models show that there are limited stoichiometric ranges for transport along Fe and Mn pathways. Furthermore, due to asymmetric hopping barriers and formation energies, the Mn O h 2 + polaron is energetically preferred to the Fe O h 2 + polaron, resulting in an asymmetric contribution of Mn/Mn pathways. All of these findings are not contained in the conventional small-polaron hopping model, highlighting its inadequacy. To correct the model, new parameters in the nearest-neighbor hopping equation are introduced to account for percolation, cross-hopping, and polaron-distribution, and it is found that a near-perfect correlation can be made between experiment and theory for the electronic conductivity.
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- Anuj Bhargava
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Berlin, 12489, Germany
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel
- The Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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Trannoy V, Bordage A, Dezalay J, Saint-Martin R, Rivière E, Beaunier P, Baumier C, La Fontaine C, Fornasieri G, Bleuzen A. Towards the synthesis of mixed oxides with controlled stoichiometry from Prussian blue analogues. CrystEngComm 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9ce00427k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The calcination of (nano) Prussian blue analogues is now a fully controlled and understood route to synthesize Co–Fe spinel oxides.
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- Virgile Trannoy
- ICMMO, Université Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- 91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
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- ICMMO, Université Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- 91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
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- ICMMO, Université Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- 91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
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- ICMMO, Université Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- 91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
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- Sorbonne Université
- CNRS
- Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface
- F-75005 Paris
- France
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- Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de la Matière
- Université Paris-Sud
- CNRS/IN2P3
- Université Paris-Saclay
- 91405 Orsay Cedex
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- ICMMO, Université Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- 91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
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- ICMMO, Université Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- 91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
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Bhargava A, Chen CY, Finkelstein KD, Ward MJ, Robinson RD. X-ray emission spectroscopy: an effective route to extract site occupation of cations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:28990-29000. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04628j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cation site occupation is an important determinant of materials properties, especially in a complex system with multiple cations such as in ternary spinels. In this work, we show that XES provides not only the site occupation information as EXAFS, but also additional information on the oxidation states of the cations at each site. Additionally, we show that XES is a superior and a far more accurate method than EXAFS.
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- Anuj Bhargava
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Cornell University
- Ithaca
- USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Cornell University
- Ithaca
- USA
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- Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
- Cornell University
- Ithaca
- USA
- CLS@APS
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Proux O, Lahera E, Del Net W, Kieffer I, Rovezzi M, Testemale D, Irar M, Thomas S, Aguilar-Tapia A, Bazarkina EF, Prat A, Tella M, Auffan M, Rose J, Hazemann JL. High-Energy Resolution Fluorescence Detected X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: A Powerful New Structural Tool in Environmental Biogeochemistry Sciences. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 2017; 46:1146-1157. [PMID: 29293835 DOI: 10.2134/jeq2017.01.0023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The study of the speciation of highly diluted elements by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is extremely challenging, especially in environmental biogeochemistry sciences. Here we present an innovative synchrotron spectroscopy technique: high-energy resolution fluorescence detected XAS (HERFD-XAS). With this approach, measurement of the XAS signal in fluorescence mode using a crystal analyzer spectrometer with a ∼1-eV energy resolution helps to overcome restrictions on sample concentrations that can be typically measured with a solid-state detector. We briefly describe the method, from both an instrumental and spectroscopic point of view, and emphasize the effects of energy resolution on the XAS measurements. We then illustrate the positive impact of this technique in terms of detection limit with two examples dealing with Ce in ecologically relevant organisms and with Hg species in natural environments. The sharp and well-marked features of the HERFD-X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectra obtained enable us to determine unambiguously and with greater precision the speciation of the probed elements. This is a major technological advance, with strong benefits for the study of highly diluted elements using XAS. It also opens new possibilities to explore the speciation of a target chemical element at natural concentration levels, which is critical in the fields of environmental and biogeochemistry sciences.
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Catala L, Mallah T. Nanoparticles of Prussian blue analogs and related coordination polymers: From information storage to biomedical applications. Coord Chem Rev 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Maeda K, Ishimaki K, Okazaki M, Kanazawa T, Lu D, Nozawa S, Kato H, Kakihana M. Cobalt Oxide Nanoclusters on Rutile Titania as Bifunctional Units for Water Oxidation Catalysis and Visible Light Absorption: Understanding the Structure-Activity Relationship. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:6114-6122. [PMID: 28117578 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The structure of cobalt oxide (CoOx) nanoparticles dispersed on rutile TiO2 (R-TiO2) was characterized by X-ray diffraction, UV-vis-NIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The CoOx nanoparticles were loaded onto R-TiO2 by an impregnation method from an aqueous solution containing Co(NO3)2·6H2O followed by heating in air. Modification of the R-TiO2 with 2.0 wt % Co followed by heating at 423 K for 1 h resulted in the highest photocatalytic activity with good reproducibility. Structural analyses revealed that the activity of this photocatalyst depended strongly on the generation of Co3O4 nanoclusters with an optimal distribution. These nanoclusters are thought to interact with the R-TiO2 surface, resulting in visible light absorption and active sites for water oxidation.
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- Kazuhiko Maeda
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1-NE-2 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1-NE-2 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1-NE-2 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2-12-1-NE-2 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Suzukakedai Materials Analysis Division, Technical Department, Tokyo Institute of Technology , 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization , 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University , 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University , 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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Nemausat R, Gervais C, Brouder C, Trcera N, Bordage A, Coelho-Diogo C, Florian P, Rakhmatullin A, Errea I, Paulatto L, Lazzeri M, Cabaret D. Temperature dependence of X-ray absorption and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra: probing quantum vibrations of light elements in oxides. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:6246-6256. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp08393e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Probing the quantum thermal fluctuations of nuclei in light-element oxides using XANES and NMR spectroscopies.
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- Ruidy Nemausat
- Sorbonne Universités
- UPMC Univ Paris 06
- IMPMC
- UMR CNRS 7590
- F-75005 Paris
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- Sorbonne Universités
- UPMC Univ Paris 06
- LCMCP
- Collège de France
- UMR CNRS 7574
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- Sorbonne Universités
- UPMC Univ Paris 06
- IMPMC
- UMR CNRS 7590
- F-75005 Paris
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL
- L'Orme des Merisiers
- F-91192 Gif sur Yvette
- France
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- ICMMO
- Univ Paris Sud
- Univ Paris-Saclay
- UMR CNRS 8182
- F-91405 Orsay
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- Fisika Aplikatua 1 Saila
- Bilboko Ingeniaritza Eskola
- University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
- 48013 Bilbao
- Spain
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- Sorbonne Universités
- UPMC Univ Paris 06
- IMPMC
- UMR CNRS 7590
- F-75005 Paris
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- Sorbonne Universités
- UPMC Univ Paris 06
- IMPMC
- UMR CNRS 7590
- F-75005 Paris
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- Sorbonne Universités
- UPMC Univ Paris 06
- IMPMC
- UMR CNRS 7590
- F-75005 Paris
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