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Characterizing the resistance generated by a molecular bond as it is forcibly separated

L B Freund1

  • 1Division of Engineering, Brown University, 184 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912-9104, USA. freund@brown.edu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|May 7, 2009
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