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Hiroshi Maeda1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. h.maescc@mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|July 21, 2006
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