Towards Structure-Property-Function Relationships for Eumelanin
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*Soft Condensed Matter Physics Group, University of Queensland Department of Physics, St. Lucia Campus, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia Theory of Condensed Matter Physics Group, University of Queensland Department of Physics St. Lucia Campus, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, USA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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