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Multispeckle x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy measurements, carried out at beamline 8-ID at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, of opaque suspensions of silica nanoparticles in water and lutidine-water binary mixtures are presented.
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Lu, X., Mochrie, J.G.S., Narayanan, S. et al. Nanoparticle suspensions studied by x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1027, 404 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-1027-D04-04
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