Investigating materials formation with liquid-phase and cryogenic TEM

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  De Yoreo, J J ^a,b   Sommerdijk, N A J M ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84997556995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.35     Document Type: Review

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