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The Underestimated Role of the Heat Pump in Achieving China’s Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2060

a Institution of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, MOE Engineering Research Center of Solar Energy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
b Institute of Energy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
c Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
d Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK

Received: 2022-05-11 Revised: 2022-06-28 Accepted: 2022-09-13 Available online: 2022-10-27

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