How to construct the perfect sandcastle

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pakpour, Maryam ^a,b   Habibi, Mehdi ^a   Møller, Peder ^c   Bonn, Daniel ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

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EID: 84864864037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00549     Document Type: Article

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