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Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper

by G  M Whitesides
Advanced Materials (2004)

Abstract

Insights into conducting research and the writing of scientific papers are given by Prof. Whitesides in this short essay. The manuscript and its guidelines has been circulated within the Whitesides' research group since 1989.

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