Nanostructures of natural iron oxide nanoparticles

Nature's Nanostructures

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 75-113

  Konishi, Hiromi ^a   Xu, Huifang ^a   Guo, Haibo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL IRON;

IRON OXIDES;

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