Growing hyperbranched polymers using natural sunlight

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yan, Jun Jie ^a   Sun, Jiao Tong ^a   You, Ye Zi ^a   Wu, De Cheng ^b   Hong, Chun Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84885465904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02841     Document Type: Article

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