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B Rufflé1, G Guimbretière, E Courtens

  • 1Laboratoire des Colloïdes, Verres et Nanomatériaux, UMR 5587 CNRS, Université Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

Physical Review Letters
|February 21, 2006
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