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Thermodynamic properties of double square-well fluids: computer simulations and theory

J R Solana1

  • 1Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain. ramon.solana@unican.es

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|January 7, 2009
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