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Microgravimetric study of electrochemically controlled nucleophilic addition of sulfite to polyaniline

Doris E Grumelli1, Erica S Forzani, Gustavo M Morales

  • 1INQUIMAE, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, AR-1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|April 20, 2005
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