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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

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Existence of an orientational electric dipolar response in c60 single crystals

G B Alers, B Golding, A R Kortan

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |July 24, 1992
    PubMed

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