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Martin Olsson1, Per Linse, Lennart Piculell

  • 1Division of Physical Chemistry 1, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden.

Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|November 3, 2005
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