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L R Sheppard1, T Bak, J Nowotny

  • 1Centre for Materials Research in Energy Conversion, School of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
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