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Sang Eun Shim1, Hyejun Jung, Kangseok Lee

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University, 253 Yonghyundong, Namgu, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea.

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|October 7, 2004
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