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Jiaguo Yu1, Hua Tang, Bei Cheng

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, People's Republic of China. yujiaguo@public.wh.hb.cn

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|June 2, 2005
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