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4. Mingzhan Wang#, Jian Jiang#, Changxiong Huang, Wenjun Zhang*, Xiao Cheng Zeng*. "Matter in ångström-scale two-dimensional confinement" Nature Reviews Chemistry 2026 (Accepted)
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