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Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Published on: May 27, 2018
Membrane-bound water is energetically decoupled from nearby bulk water: an ultrafast surface-specific investigation
Avishek Ghosh1, Marc Smits, Jens Bredenbeck
1FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Kruislaan 407, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ghosh@amolf.nl
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|July 20, 2007
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