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Hollow-fiber gas penetration electrodes efficiently produce renewable synthetic fuels

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 91745114 and 21802160), the “Transformational Technologies for Clean Energy and Demonstration,” the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDA 21000000), Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 2060299), Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. E224301401), Shanghai Sailing Program (No. 18YF1425700), Shanghai Functional Platform for Innovation Low-Carbon Technology, and the Major Project of the Science and Technology Department of Inner Mongolia (No. 2021ZD0020).

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    Yanfang Song, Xiao Dong, Wei Chen & Wei Wei

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yanfang Song, Xiao Dong, Wei Chen & Wei Wei

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Song, Y., Dong, X., Chen, W. et al. Hollow-fiber gas penetration electrodes efficiently produce renewable synthetic fuels. Front. Energy 16, 700–705 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-022-0842-8

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