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Studying Soft-matter and Biological Systems over a Wide Length-scale from Nanometer and Micrometer Sizes at the Small-angle Neutron Diffractometer KWS-2
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Studying Soft-matter and Biological Systems over a Wide Length-scale from Nanometer and Micrometer Sizes at the Small-angle Neutron Diffractometer KWS-2

Published on: December 8, 2016

Stress distribution in the scapula studied by neutron diffraction

G E Bacon, P J Bacon, R K Griffiths

    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
    |May 23, 1979
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