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Materials science. Probing the nanoscale

Robert F Cook¹

¹Nanomechanical Properties Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA. robert.cook@nist.gov

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|April 10, 2010

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