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Kenneth D. Steckler, William L. Grosshandler, Daniel C. Smith-Tone, P Rivers
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The Electricity Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing revised performance standards for hand-held (HH) and walk-through
David E. Cypher, Dongjin Lee, M Martin-Villalba, C A. Prins, David H. Su
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G Kim, C L. Jackson, V Balsamo, M Libera, R Stadler, Charles C. Han
The morphological behavior of (PS)0.35(PB)0.15(PCL)0.5 semicrystalline block copolymers as a function of annealing conditions are discussed. For this study, the
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