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Qing He1, Yu-Fei Ao1, Zhi-Tang Huang1

  • 1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 (China).

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|August 14, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
anion-π interactionshost-guest systemsself-assemblysupramolecular amphiphilesvesicles

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