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Shingo Maeda1, Yusuke Hara, Ryo Yoshida

  • 1Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan. maeshin@shalab.phys.waseda.ac.jp

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|July 25, 2008
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