Diatoms and nanotechnology: Early history and imagined future as seen through patents

The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 590-608

  Gordon, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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