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David A Bonhommeau1, Riccardo Spezia, Marie-Pierre Gaigeot

  • 1GSMA CNRS UMR7331, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Moulin de la Housse BP 1039, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France. david.bonhommeau@univ-reims.fr

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|May 16, 2012
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