"Fine phase transformations" in petroleum - The basis for emerging nanotechnologies

Petroleum Science Research Progress

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 225-249

  Evdokimov, Igor N ^a  

^a GUBKIN RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF OIL AND GAS   (Russian Federation)

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