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Julia Nase1, Osvanny Ramos, Costantino Creton

  • 1PMMH, UMR 7636, ESPCI, CNRS, Universités UPMC and Paris-Diderot, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005, Paris, France, julia.nase@tu-dortmund.de.

The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|September 19, 2013
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