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Surface Potential Measurement of Bacteria Using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy
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Comment on "Casimir force and in situ surface potential measurements on nanomembranes"
M Bordag1, G L Klimchitskaya, V M Mostepanenko
1Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, D-04009 Leipzig, Germany.
Physical Review Letters
|December 11, 2012
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