Trapping virtual pores by crystal retro-engineering

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 153-159

  Little, Marc A ^a   Briggs, Michael E ^a   Jones, James T A ^a   Schmidtmann, Marc ^a   Hasell, Tom ^a   Chong, Samantha Y ^a   Jelfs, Kim E ^b   Chen, Linjiang ^a   Cooper, Andrew I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84922898211     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2156     Document Type: Article

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