Direct-imaging and freeze-fracture cryo-transmission electron microscopy of molecular gels

Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 253-274

  Danino, Dganit ^a   Talmon, Yeshayahu ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 34748861368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3689-2_10     Document Type: Chapter

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