Nano Testing Gets its Stripes
- Author: David Bradley
- Published: 30 August 2011
- Copyright: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
- Source / Publisher: ACS Nano/ACS Publications
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ACS Nano 2011.
DOI: 10.1021/nn202116p
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