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M Trejo1, M Ben Amar

  • 1Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supèrieure (UMR 8550), Associè aux Universitès Paris 6 et Paris 7 et au CNRS, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France. mtrejo@lps.ens.fr

The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|January 29, 2011
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