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Phase equilibria of charge-, size-, and shape-asymmetric model electrolytes

Qiliang Yan1, Juan J de Pablo

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|February 28, 2002
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