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Analysis of hydrocarbon dendrimers by laser desorption time-of-flight and fourier transform mass spectrometry

K L Walker1, M S Kahr, C L Wilkins

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, 92521, Riverside, CA.

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
|November 14, 2013
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