Ionic Liquids Worldwide

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Academic Research Groups

Australia
Atkin, Rob (University of Newcastle, Austria)
Batten, Stuart (Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia)
Bond, Alan (Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia)
Drummond, Calum (CSIRO, Clayton, Australia)
Forsyth, Maria (Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia)
Harper, Jason B. (The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Harris, Ken (UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, Australia)
Horne, Mike (CSIRO, Clayton, Australia)
MacFarlane, Douglas (Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia)
Lockett, Vera (University of South Australia, Australia)
Rodopoulos, Theo (CSIRO, Clayton, Australia)
Yoshizawa-Fujita, Masahiro (Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia)


Austria
Grampp, Günther (Technische Universität, Graz, Austria)
Schröder, Christian (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)


Belgium
Binnemans, Koen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
De Vos, Dirk E. (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
Fransaer, Jan (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
Gilbert, Bernard (Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium)
Glorieux, Christ (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
Vanden Eynde, Jean Jacques (University of Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium)


Brazil
de Souza, Roberto F. (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil)
Dupont, Jairton (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil)
Ribeiro, Mauro (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)


Canada
Bazuin, C. Géraldine (Université de Montreal, Canada)
Clyburne, Jason (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Johnson, Keith E. (University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
McNulty, James (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Jessop, Philip G. (Queen´s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Ragogna, Paul J. (University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada)
Scott, Robert J. (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Singer, Robert D. (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)


Chile
Valerrama, José (University of La Serena, Chile)


China
Deng, Youquan (Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Lanzhou, P.R. China)
Han, Buxing (Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China)
Welz-Biermann, Urs (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, P.R. China)


Czech Republic
Bednova, Magdalena (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague)


Denmark
Berg, Rolf W. (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
Fehrmann, Rasmus (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
Riisager, Anders (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)


Finland
Wähälä, Kristina (University of Helsinki, Finland)


France
Bazureau, Jean-Pierre (Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France)
Dixneuf, Pierre (Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France)
Gaumont, Annie-Claude (ENSICAEN, Caen, France)
Le Bideau, Jean (Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France)
Nédélec, Jean-Yves (Université de Paris XII, Thiais, France)
Olivier-Bourbigou , Hélène (IPF-Lyon, Vernaison, France)
Vaultier, Michel (Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France)
Vioux, André (Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France)
Vo-Thanh, Giang (Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France)


Germany
Antonietti, Markus (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Germany)
Artl, Wolfgang (Friedrich-Alexander- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Beenken, Richard W.D. (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)
Buchner, Richard (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
Bund, Andreas (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Endres, Frank (Technische Universität Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany)
Giernoth, Ralf (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
Gmehling, Jürgen (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany)
Heinze, Thomas (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany)
Hempelmann, Rolf (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Hölderich, Wolfgang F. (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Janek, Jürgen (Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany)
Jastorff, Bernd (Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany)
Kirchner, Barbara (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Kragl, Udo (Universität Rostock, Germany)
Krossing, Ingo (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)
Köckerling, Martin ( Universität Rostock, Germany)
Leitner, Walter (RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany)
Ludwig, Ralf (Universität Rostock, Germany)
Mudring, Anja-Verena (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Ondruschka, Bernd (Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany)
Ranke, Johannes (Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany)
Roling, Bernhard (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Schröer, Wolffram (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Strehmel, Veronika (Universität Potsdam, Golm, Germany)
Sundermeyer, Jörg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Taubert, Andreas (Universität Potsdam, Germany)
Thöming, Jorg (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Verevkin, Sergey P. (Universität Rostock, Germany)
Unterreiner, Andreas-Neil (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
Wasserscheid, Peter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Waterkamp, Daniel (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Weingärtner, Hermann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Willner, Helge (Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, Germany)




Greece
Paleos, Constantinos N. (Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research, Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece)


Hungary
Horvath, Istvan T. (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary)


India
Balasubramanian Sundaram (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
Samanta, Anunay (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India)


Ireland
Gathergood, Nick (Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland)


Israel
Deutsch, Moshe (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
Gedanken, Aharon (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)


Italy
Bardi, Ugo (Universita di Firenze, Sesto, Italy)
Tundo, Pietro (University of Venice, Venezia, Italy)


Japan
Aratono, Makoto (Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan)
Awakura, Yasuhiro (Kyoto University, Japan)
Fukushima, Takanori (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Hamaguchi, Hiro-o (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Katayama, Yasushi (Keio University, Japan)
Kato, Takashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kimizuka, Nobuo (Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan)
Mishima, Masaaki (Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan)
Nishikawa, Keiko (Chiba University, Japan)
Ohno, Hiroyuki (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
Shirota, Hidy (Chiba University, Japan)
Takemoto, Yoshiji (Kyoto University, Japan)
Wakai, Chihiro (Kyoto University, Japan)
Watanabe, Masayoshi (Yokahama National University, Japan)


Korea
Lee, Huen (KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea)
Song, Choong Eui (Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea)


Latvia
Zicmanis, Andris (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)


Netherlands
de Haan, André (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Kroon, M. (Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands)
Meindersma, Wytze (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Peters, Cor (Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands)
Sheldon, Roger A. (Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands)
Van Rantwijk, Fred (Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands)


Poland
Kosmulski, Marek (Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
Pernak, Juliusz (Poznan Technical University, Poznan, Poland)


Portugal
Marrucho, Isabel (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
Rebelo, Luis P.N. (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)


Russia
Shaplov, Alexander (A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Vygodskii, Yakov S. (A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)


Spain
Arce, Alberte (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Rivera Calzada, Alberto (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)


Switzerland
Dyson, Paul J. (Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Fei, Zhaofu (Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Grätzel, Michael (Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)


Taiwan
Lin, Ivan J. B. (National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Taiwan)
Sun, I.-Wen (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)


United Kingdom
Abbott, Andrew P. (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)
Allen, Ray (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
Compton, Richard, G. (Oxford University, Oxford, UK)
Hardacre, Chris (Queen´s University, Belfast, UK)
Hix, Gary (Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK)
Hunt, Patricia (Imperial College, London, UK)
Kohanoff, Jorge J. (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
Lagunas, Cristina (Queen´s University, Belfast, UK)
Licence, Peter (University of Nottingham, UK)
Rooney, David W. (Queen´s University, Belfast, UK)
Seddon, Kenneth R. (Queen´s University, Belfast, UK)
Slattery, John (University of York, UK)
Stephens, Gill (University of Manchester, Mancester, UK)
Styring, Peter (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
Welton, Tom (Imperial College, London, UK)
Zheng, Qinguo (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)


USA

Acevedo, Orlando (Auburn University, Auburn, AL)
Angell, Austen C. (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)
Argyropoulos, Dimitris S. (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC)
Armstrong, Daniel W. (University of Texas, Arlington, TX)
Arzhantsev, Sergei (Penn State University, PA)
Baldelli, Steven (University of Houston, TX)
Bhowmik, Pradip K. (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV)
Brennecke, Joan F. (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN)
Brown, David M. (Davidson College, Davidson, NC)
Carper, Robert W. (Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas)
Castner, Edward W. Jr. (Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ)
Christe, Karl O. (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA)
Conboy, John C. (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah)
Dai Shen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
Danielson, Neil D. (Miami University, Oxford, OH)
Davis, James (University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL)
Dietz, Mark L. (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Dionysiou, Dionysios D. (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Eppley, Hilary J. (DePauw University, Greencastle, IN)
Fox, Douglas M. (American University, Washington DC)
Fernandez de la Mora, Juan (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Handy, Scott (University of Binghamton, Binghamton, NY)
Hussey, Charles L. (University of Missisippi, University, MS)
Jensen, Mark (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL)
Jones, Paul B. (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC)
Kim, Hyung J. (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)
Kobrak, Mark (Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY)
Kohl, Paul A. (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA)
Koval, Carl A. (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO)
Laali, Kenneth K. (Kent State University, Kent, Ohio)
Lall-Ramnarine, Sharon I. (Queensborough Community College, CUNY, New York, NY)
Larsen, Anna (Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY)
Leadbeater, Nicolas (University of Connecticut, Storss, CT)
Li, Kaichang (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon)
Lui, Huimin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
Maginn, Edward, J. (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN)
Margulis, Claudio G. (University of Iowa, Ames, IA)
Maroncelli, Mark (Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, PA)
Matthews, Michael A. (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC)
Moens, Luc (National Renawable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO)
Mohan, Ram S. (Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL)
Noble, Richard D. (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
Pagni, Richard (University of Tenessee, Knoxville, Tennessee)
Peters, Dennis G. (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
Prausnitz, John M. (University of California, Berkeley, CA)
Prieto, Amy L. (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
Quitevis, Edward L. (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
Ragauskas, Arthur J. (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA)
Reddy, Ramana G. (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)
Reichert, W. Matthew (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)
Rogers, Robin D. (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)
Rosso, Richard J. (St. John's University, Queens, NY)
Shaughnessy, Kevin H. (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)
Sneddon, Larry G. (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
Swatloski, Richard P. (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)
Thomsen, Markus (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA)
Voth, Gregory A. (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT)
Watson, Philip (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon)
Weiss, Richard G. (Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
Wishart, James F. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)
Yang, Hong (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY)
Zhang, Conrad (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA)
Zhao, Hua (Savannah State University, Savannah, GA)
Zheng, Xiangqun (Oakland University, Rochester, MI )

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Companies

Alfa Aesar
Acros Organics
BASF (imidazolium ionic liquids)
Bioniqs (protic ionic liquids)
Chemada
Covalent Associates
Cytec (phosphonium ionic liquids)
Ecosynth
GeReSO
GFS Chemicals
Ionic Liquid Technologies (IoLiTec)
Lonza
Merck KGaA
Metrohm
nGimat
Proionic
PTC Organics
SACHEM (tetraalkylammonium ionic liquids)
Scionix (choline-based ionic liquids)
Sigma-Aldrich
Solchemar
Solvent Innovation
Solvionic Strem chemicals

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Conferences

Past Conferences

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Green Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids (April 12-16, 2000, Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
"Green Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids", 221st ACS National Meeting (April 1-5, 2001, San Diego, CA)
"Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents: Progress and Prospects", 224th ACS National Meeting (August 18-22, 2002, Boston MA)
"Ionic Liquids III: Fundamentals, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities", 226th ACS National Meeting (September 7-11, 2003, New York, NY)
Green Solvents for Synthesis (October 3 - 6, 2004, Bruchsal, Germany)
1st International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL-1) (June 19-22, 2005, Salzburg, Austria)
Ionic Liquid Symposium at the Spring 2006 National ACS Meeting (March 26-30, 2006, Atlanta, GA)
EUCHEM 2006 Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids (16-22 September, 2006, Hammamet, Tunisia)
Biodegradability and Toxicity of Ionic Liquids (May 5-9, 2007, Berlin, Germany)
2nd International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL-2) (August 6-10, 2007, Yokoyama, Japan)
25th Rare Earth Research Conference (June 22-27, 2008, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA)
Ionic Liquid Symposium at the Fall 2008 National ACS Meeting (August 17-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA)
EUCHEM 2008 Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids (August 24-29, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark)
2008 Joint Symposium on Molten Salts (October 19-23, 2008, Kobe, Japan)
International Bunsen Discussion Meeting: Influence of Ionic Liquids on chemical and physicochemical reactions (November 23-25, 2008, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany)
3rd International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL-3) (May 31- June 4, 2009, Cairns, Australia)
42nd IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (August 2-7, 2009, Glasgow, UK)


Forthcoming Conferences

Regional Conference on Ionic Liquids, RCIL'09 (November 24-25, 2009, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
EUCHEM 2010 Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids (March 14-19, 2010, Bamberg, Germany)
Symposium on the Physical Chemistry of Ionic Liquids at the 239th ACS National Meeting (March 21-25, 2010, San Francisco, California, USA)
Green Solvents for Synthesis (October 10-13, 2010, Berchtesgaden, Germany)



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Databases Ionic Liquids

Ionic Liquids Database (Merck KGaA)
Ionic Liquids in the Dortmund Data Bank (DDBSP)
IUPAC Ionic Liquids Database (IL Thermo)
Tohoku Molten Salt Database


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Research Centers and Research Programs

Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis
Center for Green Manufacturing
Chilean Ionic Liquid Group
China Ionic Liquid Laboratory (CHILL)
DFG SPP1191 Priority Program "Ionic Liquids"
Iolisurf
IONMET
Monash Ionic Liquids Group
Power, Environmental and Energy Research (PEER) Center
Queen´s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL)
Red Tematica Liquidos Ionicos
Science of Ionic Liquids
U.S. Naval Research Lab

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Tutorials and General Texts

Chemical Industry Vision2020: Ionic Liquids Roadmap
ESI Essential Science Indicator "Ionic Liquids"
Ionic Liquids
Ionic Liquids Tutorial (John D. Holbrey)
Molten Salt Bulletin
Room Temperature Ionic Liquids
Special issue on ionic liquids in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Super Solvents
Salty solvents - ionic really
Ionic Liquids Today (Iolitec)



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Ionic liquids in the News

Stand by for supersolvent (BP Global)
Ionic liquids show promise for clean separation technology (Chemical & Engineering News, August 24, 1998)
Ionic liquids prove increasingly versatile (Chemical & Engineering News, January 4, 1999
Organic reactions enter a new phase (Chemical & Engineering News, February, 1999)
Eyes on Ionic Liquids (Chemical & Engineering News, May 15, 2000)
New Horizons for Ionic Liquids (Chemical & Engineering News, January 1, 2001)
An Environmental Solution: Ionic Liquids May Replace Hazardous Solvents (Scientific American, August 2001)
BASF's Smart Ionic Liquid (Chemical & Engineering News, March 31, 2003)
Ionic liquids: solvents of the future? (Science, October 31, 2003)
Sweeteners for Ionic Liquids (Chemical & Engineering News, March 15, 2004)
Designer Liquids in Polymer Systems (Chemical & Engineering News, May 3, 2004)
Ionic liquids for greener processes (Manufacturing Chemist, June 2004)
Ionic liquids: and interview with Ken Seddon (ESI Special Topics, July 2004)
Ionic liquids: and interview with Tom Welton (ESI Special Topics, July 2004)
Ionic liquids: and interview with Robin Rogers (ESI Special Topics, July 2004)
Ionic Liquids (BBC Radio 4, Science Frontiers, 10 November 2004)
Ionic Liquids in Organic Synthesis (Chemical & Engineering News, November 8, 2004)
Promising a Greener Future (Chemistry World, March 2005)
Ionic Liquids make Splash in Industry (Chemical & Engineering News, August 1, 2005)
Smart solvents switch from ionic to non-ionic (Chemistry World, August 25, 2005)
New use for 'zone melting' (Research at the University of Liverpool, August 2005)
Mixed Solids Form Low-Freezing Liquids (Chemical & Engineering News, September 12, 2005)
Silk fibres from an ionic liquid solution (Chemistry World, October 13, 2005)
Ionic Liquids in High Vacuum (Chemical & Engineering News, October 31, 2005)
Lowering the Viscosities of Ionic Liquids (Chemical & Engineering News, November 10, 2005)
Volatile times for ionic liquids (Nature, February 16, 2006)
Surprise discovery that ionic liquids can be distilled (Chemistry World, February 16, 2006)
Ionic Liquids: Contrary to assumption, ionic liquids can be distilled without decomposition (Chemistry & Engineering News, February 20, 2006)
Out of the Ivory Tower (Chemical & Engineering News, April 24, 2006)
Caution urged over combustible ionic liquids (Chemical Science, June 20, 2006)
New Frontiers For Ionic Liquids (Chemical & Engineering News, January 1, 2007)
Scribbling on Ionic liquids (Chemical & Engineering News, May 7, 2007)
Ionic liquids' Etch a Sketch of Surprise (Chemistry World, May 2, 2007)
Sweet substitute for petroleum products (Chemistry World, June 14, 2007)
More sugary solutions for petroleum substitutes (Chemistry World, June 20, 2007)
Liquid mirror could be used for moon-based telescope (New Scientist Space, June 20, 2007)
Reflections on ionic liquids (Nature, June 21, 2007)
A mirror for the moon (Chemistry World, June 21, 2007)
Sweet Routes To Sustainability (Chemical & Engineering News, June 25, 2007)
Depolymerizing Plastics (Chemical & Engineering News, July 2, 2007)
The third age of ionic liquids (Chemical Science, July 4, 2007)
From aphrodisiacs to designer inhibition (Chemical Science, October 3, 2007)
Ionische vloeistoffen: meer dan ideale oplosmiddelen (in Dutch) (TWA Netwerk, October 29, 2007)
Moving Gas Safely (Chemical & Engineering News, January 7, 2008)
Designer thermometers rise to new levels (RSC Chemical Technology, March 25, 2008)
New ionic liquid in thermometers beats mercury on range, performance and safety (RSC Press Release, March 26, 2008)
Ionic-liquid solar cells (Chemical & Engineering News, July 2, 2008)
Ionic liquids go to the market (Chemical & Engineering News, September 29, 2008)


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