Pappas, Charalampos G. and Mutasa, Tapiwa and Frederix, Pim W. J. M. and Fleming, Scott and Bia, Shuo and Debnath, Sisir and Kelly, Sharon M. and Gachagan, Anthony and Ulijn, Rein V. (2015) Transient supramolecular reconfiguration of peptide nanostructures
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