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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grants DMR-0239415, DMI-0508407, and DMR-0804838 and the corresponding NSF special creativity award and CMMI-1100166. EDL was also supported by the NSF-IGERT DGE-0221664.

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    Eric D. Laird, Bin Dong, Wenda Wang, Tian Zhou, Shan Cheng & Christopher Y. Li

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Laird, E.D., Dong, B., Wang, W., Zhou, T., Cheng, S., Li, C.Y. (2013). Polymer Single Crystals in Nanoparticle-Containing Hybrid Systems. In: Palsule, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymers and Composites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37179-0_26-1

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