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Measurements of Long-range Electronic Correlations During Femtosecond Diffraction Experiments Performed on Nanocrystals of Buckminsterfullerene
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Measurements of Long-range Electronic Correlations During Femtosecond Diffraction Experiments Performed on Nanocrystals of Buckminsterfullerene

Published on: August 22, 2017

Bond lengths in free molecules of buckminsterfullerene, c60, from gas-phase electron diffraction

K Hedberg, L Hedberg, D S Bethune

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 18, 1991
    PubMed

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