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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
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Impact-induced cleaving and melting of alkali-halide nanocrystals

R D Beck, P S John, M L Homer

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |August 23, 1991
    PubMed

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