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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    Sangtae Kim

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    Gerhard Kreysa

  2. Yokohama National University, Fac. Engineering, Yokohama, Japan

    Ken-ichiro Ota

  3. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Robert F. Savinell

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Kim, S. (2014). Grain-Boundary Conductivity. In: Kreysa, G., Ota, Ki., Savinell, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6996-5_462

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