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Nayak, C., Jha, S.N., Bhattacharyya, D. (2018). In Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Study Growth of Nanoparticles. In: Kumar, C. (eds) In-situ Characterization Techniques for Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56322-9_6

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