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Remote plasma-assisted vapour deposition under nitrogen (RPAVD-N2) is introduced as a single-step, solvent-free, room-temperature strategy to integrate iron(II) phthalocyanine (FePc) into carbon nanofiber (CNF) scaffolds for…
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