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of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy OPTIMIZING THE PACKING BEHAVIOR OF LAYERED PERMUTATION PATTERNS By Daniel E. Warren

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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Crystallographic Perturbations to Valence Charge Density and Hydrogen-Surface Interactions A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

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