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Correction: A CO2-responsive smart fluid based on supramolecular assembly structures varying reversibly from vesicles
Chunming Xiong1, Falin Wei1, Qiang Zhou2
1Research Institute of Science and Technology, China National Petroleum Corporation Beijing 100083 P. R. China.
RSC Advances
|May 9, 2022
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1039/D0RA03854G.].
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