Advances in Physical Chemistry
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 953198, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/953198
Research Article

Comparison of the Molecular Dynamics of C70 in the Solid and Liquid Phases

1Department of Biochemistry, Nanaline Duke Building, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
2Laboratoire de Méthodologies RMN (UMR 7565 CNRS), Faculte des Sciences et Techniques, Université H. Poincaré, Boulevard des Aigillettes, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lés-Nancy Cedex, France
3Department of Chemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA

Received 21 November 2008; Accepted 7 February 2009

Academic Editor: Clare M. McCabe

Copyright © 2009 R. M. Hughes et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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