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[m × n] metal ion arrays templated by coordination cages

Takafumi Osuga1, Takashi Murase, Kosuke Ono

  • 1Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|October 22, 2010
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