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R Szoszkiewicz1, B Bhushan, B D Huey

  • 1Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. robert.szoszkiewicz@physics.gatech.edu

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|April 26, 2005
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