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Catherine Combellas1, Marc Fermigier, Adrien Fuchs

  • 1Laboratoire Environnement et Chimie Analytique, UMR 7121, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. Catherine.Combellas@espci.fr

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