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Paul J Dyson1, J Scott McIndoe

  • 1Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-BCH, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. paul.dyson@epfl.ch

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 13, 2004
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