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Some new mesoscopic crossover length scales concerning the Hamaker constant

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Correspondence to YaPu Zhao.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51861145314, 11872363), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) through the CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences (Grant No. QYZDJ-SSW-JSC019), and the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (Grant No. XDB22040401).

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Zhao, Y. Some new mesoscopic crossover length scales concerning the Hamaker constant. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 62, 2310–2312 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-019-1487-5

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