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Andrea Giaccherini, Andrea Griesi, Giordano Montegrossi, Maurizio Romanelli, Giovanni O. Lepore, Alessandro Lavacchi, Georg Amthauer, Günther Redhammer, Gerold Tippelt, Stefano Martinuzzi, Giuseppe Cucinotta, Matteo Mannini, Andrea Caneschi, Francesco Di Benedetto

A new solvothermal approach to obtain nanoparticles in the Cu₃SnS₄-Cu₂FeSnS₄ join

Journal of Geosciences, volume 65 (2020), issue 1, 3 - 14

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