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M Deborah1, A Jawahar1, T Mathavan2

  • 1Department of Chemistry, NMSSVN College, Madurai 625 019, Tamil Nadu, India.

Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
|January 3, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
CharacterizationElectron paramagnetic resonanceFunctionalizationMulti-walled carbon nanotubesValine

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