Inorganic Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation

Inorganic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Applications, and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 393-439

  Scott, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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