Surface freezing in chain molecules: Normal alkanes
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B. M. Ocko, 1 X. Z. Wu, 2,3 E. B. Sirota, 4 S. K. Sinha, 5 O. Gang, 6 and M. Deutsch 6 Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 Physics Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 Material Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Route 22 East, Annandale, New Jersey 08801 Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 Physics Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel ~Received 9 October 1996!
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تاریخ انتشار 1997