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Xudong Hou1, Tingting Xu1, Yang Wang1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
|August 26, 2017
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Keywords:
core−shellenantioselectiveisochoric techniquemetal−organic frameworksuperficial chiral etching process

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