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Formation of Ordered Biomolecular Structures by the Self-assembly of Short Peptides
Published on: November 21, 2013
Self-organized hybrid silica with long-range ordered lamellar structure
J J Moreau1, L Vellutini, M W Chi Man
1Hétérochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire UMR 5076, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie Montpellier, 8 rue de l'Ecole Normale 34296 Montpellier Cedex 05, France.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 9, 2001
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