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Rachid Matmour1, Arvind S More, Prakash P Wadgaonkar

  • 1Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, ENSCPB, Université Bordeaux 1, 16 Avenue Pey Berland, 33607 Pessac Cedex, France.

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