The importance of being discrete: life always wins on the surface.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on September 12, 2000

Authors

N M Shnerb1, Y Louzoun, E Bettelheim, S Solomon

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physics, Judea and Samaria College, Ariel 44837 Israel.

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