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Metal Structures as Advanced Materials in Nanotechnology

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‘Metal structures as advanced materials in nanotechnology’ is a collection of fabrication and characterization techniques which involve metallic materials for the realization of advanced micro- and nanostructured devices.

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Accardo, A. et al. (2014). Metal Structures as Advanced Materials in Nanotechnology. In: Bhushan, B., Luo, D., Schricker, S., Sigmund, W., Zauscher, S. (eds) Handbook of Nanomaterials Properties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31107-9_42

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