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The self-assembly of submerged cold-plasma-treated polyethylene beads is reported. The plasma-treated immersed millimetrically-sized polyethylene beads formed well-ordered 2D quasi-crystalline structures. The submerged floating of light…
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The large volume change of the silicon (Si) during lithiation and delithiation process has long been a problem impeding its application as one of the most promising anode materials for LIBs. In this paper, we proposed a conceptually new…