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Rick Marta
Back to facultyAssociate Professor International - Teaching Stream, Materials and Nanosciences Undergraduate AdvisorDepartment of ChemistryUniversity of Waterloo
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Latest papers
Assessing the impact of anion-π effects on phenylalanine ion structures using IRMPD spectroscopy.
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2014
1 publications.
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Assessing the impact of anion-π effects on phenylalanine ion structures using IRMPD spectroscopy.
Burt M, Wilson K, Marta R, Hasan M, Scott Hopkins W, McMahon T
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP2014
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