Research Progress on the Antifreeze Performance of Water-based Zinc-ion Batteries Using Polyacrylamide as the Gel Electrolyte Base

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 666, 2025 5^th International Conference on Air Pollution and Environmental Engineering (APEE 2025)


Article Number		01022
Number of page(s)		8
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202566601022
Published online		19 November 2025

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