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Massimiliano Di Ventra1, Rafael Gutierrez2, Gianaurelio Cuniberti2,3

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A
|September 30, 2025
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