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Corrigendum: A simple method for the quantification of molecular decorations on silica particles (2014 Sci. Technol.
Daniel Mangos1, Takashi Nakanishi2, David Lewis3
1Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100; National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, 305-0047, Japan.
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
|November 28, 2016
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/15/1/015002.].
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