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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
Silica particle formation in confined environments via bioinspired polyamine catalysis at near-neutral pH
Christina A Bauer1, David B Robinson, Blake A Simmons
1Nanoscale Science and Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, USA.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|February 13, 2007
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