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In Situ SIMS and IR Spectroscopy of Well-defined Surfaces Prepared by Soft Landing of Mass-selected Ions
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Nanocrystals with unconventional shapes--a class of promising catalysts
Yujie Xiong1, Benjamin J Wiley, Younan Xia
1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|August 7, 2007
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