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Songyue Chen1, Hepeng Dong1, Jing Yang1

  • 1Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 22, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
nanoporenanowiresurface chargesurface potentialzeta potential

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