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Oleksandra Berezhnytska1, Irina Savchenko2, Nadiya Ivakha1

  • 1V.I.Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Nanoscale Research Letters
|May 11, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
LuminescenceNeodymium(III)Polymer complexesSpectraStructure

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