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C Moreno-Castilla1, M A Álvarez-Merino, L M Pastrana-Martínez

  • 1Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. cmoreno@ugr.es

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|February 23, 2010
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