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Advanced Materials
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Highly Unidirectional Emission from Ultrahigh-Q Microcavities
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Carbon/polymer nanospheres developed for microelectronics
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Prof. Xueliang (Andy) Sun and colleagues from Western University in Canada have directly studied LiFePO4 carbon coating, for lithium ion battery cathodes.
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