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Temperature and Size Effects on Structural and Dynamical Properties of Water Confined in 1 - 10 nm-scale Pores Using

Yuta Fukatsu1, Kyojiro Morikawa1, Yasuhisa Ikeda1

  • 1Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Analytical Sciences : the International Journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
|August 11, 2017
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NMRWater moleculedynamicsfreezingnanodevicenanopore

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