Versatile, high quality and scalable continuous flow production of metal-organic frameworks

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rubio Martinez, Marta ^a   Batten, Michael P ^a   Polyzos, Anastasios ^a   Carey, Keri Constanti ^a   Mardel, James I ^a   Lim, Kok Seng ^a   Hill, Matthew R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 84903456985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05443     Document Type: Article

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