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Mandeep Singh Bakshi1, Shweta Sachar, Tomokazu Yoshimura

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, Punjab, India. ms_bakshi@yahoo.com

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|August 18, 2004
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