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Sungmin Kang1, Seng Kue Lee, Masatoshi Tokita

  • 1Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan. skang@polymer.titech.ac.jp

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
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