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Ula El-Jaby1, Michael Cunningham, Timothy F L McKenna

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; CNRS-LCPP/ CPE-LYON, BP 2007, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69616, France.

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