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What 3D Printing Cannot Achieve: Rethinking Composite Additive Manufacturing 3D打印无法实现的：重新思考复合增材制造

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Accounts of materials research Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.5c00156

Kelvin Fu*,

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Functional Unit: A New Perspective on Materials Science Research Paradigms 功能单元：材料科学研究范式的新视角

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Accounts of materials research Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.5c00090

Caichao Ye, Tao Feng, Weishu Liu* and Wenqing Zhang*,

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Functional Porous Cubosomes: Synthesis and Applications in Energy Storage and Conversion 功能性多孔立方体体：合成及其在能量储存和转化中的应用

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Accounts of materials research Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.5c00073

Luoxing Xiang, Chen Tang, Zhi Xu, Fugui Xu, Chen Li* and Yiyong Mai*,

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Accounts of materials research Pub Date : 2025-06-27

Xiaoming Wen*, and , Baohua Jia,