journal article·2026-02

Failure mechanisms and current collector design for sodium metal anodes: From thermodynamic-kinetic coupling to structural-functional optimization

Saisai Qiu, Haolin Zhu, Qiang Wu, Shijie Cheng, Jia Xie

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