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This work was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Science, Material Science and Engineering Division, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division under contract no. DE-AC02-98CH10886, and by the Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium, US Department of Energy under grant no. DE-FG02-05ER15688.

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Sasaki, K., Marinkovic, N. (2016). X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization of Nanomaterial Catalysts in Electrochemistry and Fuel Cells. In: Kumar, C. (eds) X-ray and Neutron Techniques for Nanomaterials Characterization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48606-1_6

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