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Loretta L del Mercato1, Giuseppe Maruccio, Pier Paolo Pompa

  • 1National Nanotechnology Laboratory of INFM-CNR, IIT Research Unit, ISUFI, University of Salento, Via per Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy. loretta.delmercato@unile.it

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