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William W Liou1, Yongqing Peng, Peter E Parker

  • 1Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA.

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|February 24, 2009
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