Published in Nat Commun on May 17, 2010
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Contact of oil with solid surfaces in aqueous media probed using sum frequency generation spectroscopy. Langmuir (2012) 0.75
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The effect of a solid surface on the segregation and melting of salt hydrates. J Am Chem Soc (2014) 0.75
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