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Oxoclusters of the lanthanides begin to resemble solid-state materials at very small cluster sizes: structure and NIR

Santanu Banerjee1, G Ajith Kumar, Richard E Riman

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8087, USA.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|April 19, 2007
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