Large-scale synthesis of metal nanosheets as highly active catalysts: Combining accumulative roll-bonding and etching process

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51801235 and 51674303), the Innovation-Driven Project of Central South University (No. 2018CX004), and the Start-up Funding of Central South University (No. 502045005).

Supplementary information

Supplementary materials can be found in the online version at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-021-0566-4, which are associated with this work.

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