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  • Yazdani N, Jansen M, Bozyigit D, Lin WMM, Volk S, Yarema O, et al.
    Nanocrystal superlattices as phonon-engineered solids and acoustic metamaterials
    Nature Communications. 2019; 10: 4236 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12305-3
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  • Uxa D, Jerliu B, Hüger E, Dörrer L, Horisberger M, Stahn J, et al.
    On the lithiation mechanism of amorphous silicon electrodes in Li-ion batteries
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2019; 123(36): 22027-22039. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06011
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  • Zarebanadkouki M, Trtik P, Hayat F, Carminati A, Kaestner A
    Root water uptake and its pathways across the root: quantification at the cellular scale
    Scientific Reports. 2019; 9(1): 12979 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49528-9
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  • Luo Z, Yang Y, Radulescu A, Kohlbrecher J, Darwish TA, Ong QK, et al.
    Multidimensional characterization of mixed ligand nanoparticles using small angle neutron scattering
    Chemistry of Materials. 2019; 31(17): 6750-6758. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01209
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  • Schiebel K, Jordan G, Schmahl W, Kaestner A, Schillinger B, Böhnke S
    Nasszugfestigkeitsprüfungen in der Neutronenradiografie
    Giesserei. 2019:32-37.
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  • Maity SR, Ceretti M, Keller L, Schefer J, Shang T, Pomjakushina E, et al.
    Structural disorder and magnetic correlations driven by oxygen doping in Nd2NiO4+δ (δ ∼ 0.11)
    Physical Review Materials. 2019; 3(8): 083604 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.083604
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  • Mazzone DG, Gauthier N, Maimone DT, Yadav R, Bartkowiak M, Gavilano JL, et al.
    Evolution of magnetic order from the localized to the itinerant limit
    Physical Review Letters. 2019; 123: 097201 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.097201
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  • Valsecchi J, Harti RP, Raventós M, Siegwart MD, Morgano M, Boillat P, et al.
    Visualization and quantification of inhomogeneous and anisotropic magnetic fields by polarized neutron grating interferometry
    Nature Communications. 2019; 10(1): 3788 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11590-2
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  • Sacha J, Snehota M, Trtik P, Hovind J
    Impact of infiltration rate on residual air distribution and hydraulic conductivity
    Vadose Zone Journal. 2019; 18(1): 190003 (15 pp.). https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2019.01.0003
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  • Nakajima T, Karube K, Ishikawa Y, Yonemura M, Reynolds N, White JS, et al.
    Correlation between site occupancies and spin-glass transition in skyrmion host Co10−x/2Zn10−x/2Mnx
    Physical Review B. 2019; 100(6): 064407 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.064407
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  • Billaud J, Sheptyakov D, Sallard S, Leanza D, Talianker M, Grinblat J, et al.
    Li/Fe substitution in Li-rich Ni, Co, Mn oxides for enhanced electrochemical performance as cathode materials
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2019; 7(25): 15215-15224. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TA00399A
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  • Pandey N, Gupta M, Rawat R, Amir SM, Stahn J, Gupta A
    Role of growth parameters on structural and magnetic properties of Fe4N thin films grown by reactive magnetron sputtering
    Physica B: Condensed Matter. 2019; 572: 36-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2019.07.039
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  • Pandey N, Gupta M, Gupta R, Hussain Z, Reddy VR, Phase DM, et al.
    Structural and magnetic properties of stoichiometric Co4N epitaxial thin films
    Physical Review B. 2019; 99(21): 214109 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.214109
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  • Titov I, Barbieri M, Bender P, Peral I, Kohlbrecher J, Saito K, et al.
    Effect of grain-boundary diffusion process on the geometry of the grain microstructure of Nd−Fe−B nanocrystalline magnets
    Physical Review Materials. 2019; 3(8): 084410 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.084410
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  • Bertsch P, Thoma A, Bergfreund J, Geue T, Fischer P
    Transient measurement and structure analysis of protein-polysaccharide multilayers at fluid interfaces
    Soft Matter. 2019; 15(31): 6362-6368. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SM01112A
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  • Pandey N, Gupta M, Gupta R, Amir SM, Stahn J
    Dynamics of reactive sputtering affecting phase formation of Co–N thin films
    Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing. 2019; 125(8): 539 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-019-2825-0
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  • Jacot-Guillarmod M, Schmidt-Ott K, Mannes D, Kaestner A, Lehmann E, Gervais C
    Multi-modal tomography to assess dechlorination treatments of iron-based archaeological artifacts
    Heritage Science. 2019; 7(1): 29 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-019-0266-x
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  • Polatidis E, Šmíd M, Hsu W-N, Kubenova M, Capek J, Panzner T, et al.
    The interplay between deformation mechanisms in austenitic 304 steel during uniaxial and equibiaxial loading
    Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing. 2019; 764: 138222 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.138222
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  • Cho JIS, Neville TP, Trogadas P, Meyer Q, Wu Y, Ziesche R, et al.
    Visualization of liquid water in a lung-inspired flow-field based polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell via neutron radiography
    Energy. 2019; 170: 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.12.143
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  • Gasser U, Scotti A, Fernandez-Nieves A
    Spontaneous deswelling of microgels controlled by counterion clouds
    Physical Review E. 2019; 99(4): 042602 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.99.042602
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  • Hueger E, Stahn J, Heitjans P, Schmidt H
    Neutron reflectometry to measure in situ the rate determining step of lithium ion transport through thin silicon layers and interfaces
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2019; 21(30): 16444-16450. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp01222b
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  • Puphal P, Allenspach S, Rüegg C, Pomjakushina E
    Floating zone growth of Sr substituted Han Purple: Ba0.9Sr0.1CuSi2O6
    Crystals. 2019; 9(5): 273 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9050273
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  • Benedek P, Yazdani N, Chen H, Wenzler N, Juranyi F, Månsson M, et al.
    Surface phonons of lithium ion battery active materials
    Sustainable Energy and Fuels. 2019; 3(2): 508-513. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SE00389K
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  • Okuyama D, Bleuel M, White JS, Ye Q, Krzywon J, Nagy G, et al.
    Deformation of the moving magnetic skyrmion lattice in MnSi under electric current flow
    Communications Physics. 2019; 2: 79 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-019-0175-z
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  • Faure Q, Takayoshi S, Simonet V, Grenier B, Månsson M, White JS, et al.
    Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid spin dynamics in the quasi-one-dimensional ising-like antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8
    Physical Review Letters. 2019; 123(2): 027204 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.027204
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  • Ruminy M, Guitteny S, Robert J, Regnault L-P, Boehm M, Steffens P, et al.
    Magnetoelastic excitation spectrum in the rare-earth pyrochlore Tb2Ti2O7
    Physical Review B. 2019; 99(22): 224431 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.224431
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  • Saha D, Agarwal A, Bhattacharya J, Ray D, Aswal VK, Kohlbrecher J
    The role of solvent in the formation of biodegradable polymer nanoparticles
    In: Biswas A, Sharma VK, Yusuf SM, eds. DAE solid state physics symposium 2018. Vol. 2115. AIP conference proceedings. sine loco: AIP Publishing; 2019. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5112880
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  • Saha D, Ray D, Kohlbrecher J, Aswal VK
    Random flight model analysis of protein-surfactant complexes
    In: Biswas A, Sharma VK, Yusuf SM, eds. DAE solid state physics symposium 2018. Vol. 2115. AIP conference proceedings. sine loco: AIP Publishing; 2019. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5112872
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  • Carminati C, Strobl M, Kaestner A
    KipTool, a general purpose processing tool for neutron imaging data
    SoftwareX. 2019; 10: 100279 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2019.100279
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  • Barthélemy Q, Puphal P, Zoch KM, Krellner C, Luetkens H, Baines C, et al.
    Local study of the insulating quantum kagome antiferromagnets YCu3(OH)6OxCl3−x(x = 0,1/3)
    Physical Review Materials. 2019; 3(7): 074401 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.074401
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  • Andersen HL, Granados-Miralles C, Saura-Múzquiz M, Stingaciu M, Larsen J, Søndergaard-Pedersen F, et al.
    Enhanced intrinsic saturation magnetization of ZnxCo1-xFe2O4 nanocrystallites with metastable spinel inversion
    Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 2019; 3(4): 668-679. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00012G
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  • Salvati Manni L, Assenza S, Duss M, Vallooran JJ, Juranyi F, Jurt S, et al.
    Soft biomimetic nanoconfinement promotes amorphous water over ice
    Nature Nanotechnology. 2019; 14(6): 609-615. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0415-0
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  • Mertelj A, Lampret B, Lisjak D, Klepp J, Kohlbrecher J, Čopič M
    Evolution of nematic and ferromagnetic ordering in suspensions of magnetic nanoplatelets
    Soft Matter. 2019; 15(27): 5412-5420. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SM00949C
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  • Sokolov DA, Kikugawa N, Helm T, Borrmann H, Burkhardt U, Cubitt R, et al.
    Metamagnetic texture in a polar antiferromagnet
    Nature Physics. 2019; 15(7): 671-677. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0501-0
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  • Reynolds N, Mannig A, Luetkens H, Baines C, Goko T, Scheuermann R, et al.
    Magnetoelectric coupling without long-range magnetic order in the spin-1/2 multiferroic Rb2Cu2Mo3O12
    Physical Review B. 2019; 99(21): 214443 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.214443
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  • Zboray R, Trtik P
    In-depth analysis of high-speed, cold neutron imaging of air-water two-phase flows
    Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 2019; 66: 182-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2019.03.005
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  • Wilson MN, Crisanti M, Barker C, Štefančič A, White JS, Birch MT, et al.
    Measuring the formation energy barrier of skyrmions in zinc-substituted Cu2OSeO3
    Physical Review B. 2019; 99(17): 174421 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.174421
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  • Kumar S, Yadav I, Ray D, Abbas S, Saha D, Aswal VK, et al.
    Evolution of interactions in the protein solution as induced by mono and multivalent ions
    Biomacromolecules. 2019; 20(5): 2123-2134. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.9b00374
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  • Barbero N, Medarde M, Shang T, Sheptyakov D, Landee CP, Mesot J, et al.
    Room-temperature structural phase transition in the quasi-2D spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cu(pz)2(ClO4)2
    Physical Review Materials. 2019; 3(5): 053602 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.053602
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  • Pregelj M, Zorko A, Gomilšek M, Klanjšek M, Zaharko O, White JS, et al.
    Elementary excitation in the spin-stripe phase in quantum chains
    npj Quantum Materials. 2019; 4: 22 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-019-0160-5
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  • Mredha MTI, Le HH, Tran VT, Trtik P, Cui J, Jeon I
    Anisotropic tough multilayer hydrogels with programmable orientation
    Materials Horizons. 2019; 6(7): 1504-1511. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9MH00320G
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  • Heitkam S, Lappan T, Eckert S, Trtik P, Eckert K
    Tracking of particles in froth using neutron imaging
    Chemie Ingenieur Technik. 2019; 91(7): 1001-1007. https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.201800127
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  • Čoga L, Simič R, Geue T, Kalin M
    Additive adsorption on DLC coatings in static and tribological conditions using neutron reflectometry
    Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. 2019; 5: 10 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2019.00010
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  • Saito K, Yano M, Hino H, Shoji T, Asahara A, Morita H, et al.
    Accelerating small-angle scattering experiments on anisotropic samples using kernel density estimation
    Scientific Reports. 2019; 9(1): 1526 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37345-5
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  • Kumar S, Ray D, Abbas S, Saha D, Aswal VK, Kohlbrecher J
    Reentrant phase behavior of nanoparticle solutions probed by small-angle scattering
    Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science. 2019; 42: 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2019.02.010
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  • Bertsch P, Sánchez-Ferrer A, Bagnani M, Isabettini S, Kohlbrecher J, Mezzenga R, et al.
    Ion-induced formation of nanocrystalline cellulose colloidal glasses containing nematic domains
    Langmuir. 2019; 35(11): 4117-4124. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00281
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  • Siegwart M, Harti RP, Manzi O, Valsecchi J, Strobl M, Grünzweig C, et al.
    Selective Visualization of Water in Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Layers with Neutron Dark-Field Imaging
    Journal of the Electrochemical Society. 2019; 166: F149. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.1011902jes
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  • Yamada M, Filges U, Hosobata T, Yamagata Y, Rantsiou E
    Adaptive focusing optics for extreme conditions
    Journal of Neutron Research. 2019; 20(4): 113-116. https://doi.org/10.3233/JNR-180092
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  • Van Rie J, Schütz C, Gençer A, Lombardo S, Gasser U, Kumar S, et al.
    Anisotropic Diffusion and Phase Behavior of Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions
    Langmuir. 2019; 35: 2289. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03792
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  • Michels A, Mettus D, Titov I, Malyeyev A, Bersweiler M, Bender P, et al.
    Microstructural-defect-induced Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
    Physical Review B. 2019; 99(1): 014416. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.014416
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  • Telang P, Maljuk A, Rout D, Hu R, Skoulatos M, Karmakar K, et al.
    Laser-diode-heated floating-zone crystal growth of ErVO 3
    Journal of Crystal Growth. 2019; 507: 406-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.12.002
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  • Zecevic M, Upadhyay MV, Polatidis E, Panzner T, Van Swygenhoven H, Knezevic M
    A crystallographic extension to the Olson-Cohen model for predicting strain path dependence of martensitic transformation
    Acta Materialia. 2019; 166: 386-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.12.060
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  • Quan Y, van den Brandt B, Kohlbrecher J, Wenckebach WT, Hautle P
    A transportable neutron spin filter
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2019; 921: 22-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.047
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  • Georgiev P, Embs J, Eckert J
    A manganese hydride molecular sieve for practical hydrogen storage under ambient conditions
    Energy and Environmental Science. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8EE02499E
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  • Li X, Zhang S, Li H, Alba Venero D, White JS, Cubitt R, et al.
    Oriented 3D magnetic biskyrmions in MnNiGa bulk crystals
    Advanced Materials. 2019; 31(17): 1900264 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201900264
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  • Sofinowski K, Panzner T, Kubenova M, Čapek J, Van Petegem S, Van Swygenhoven H
    In situ tension-tension strain path changes of cold-rolled Mg AZ31B
    Acta Materialia. 2019; 164: 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.10.033
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  • Crha J, Vila-Comamala J, Lehmann E, David C, Trtik P
    Light yield enhancement of 157-gadolinium oxysulfide scintillator screens for the high-resolution neutron imaging
    MethodsX. 2019; 6: 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2018.12.005
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  • Carminati C, Boillat P, Schmid F, Vontobel P, Hovind J, Morgano M, et al.
    Implementation and assessment of the black body bias correction in quantitative neutron imaging
    PLoS One. 2019; 14(1): e0210300 (24 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210300
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  • Moore ME, Lousteau J, Trtik P, Bilheux HZ, Pugliese D, Milanese D, et al.
    Fabrication and experimental evaluation of microstructured 6Li silicate fiber arrays for high spatial resolution neutron imaging
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2019: (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.010
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  • Fennell T, Harris MJ, Calder S, Ruminy M, Boehm M, Steffens P, et al.
    Multiple Coulomb phase in the fluoride pyrochlore CsNiCrF6
    Nature Physics. 2019; 15(1): 60-66. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0309-3
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  • Alderete N, Villagrán Zaccardi Y, Snoeck D, Van Belleghem B, Van den Heede P, Van Tittelboom K, et al.
    Capillary imbibition in mortars with natural pozzolan, limestone powder and slag evaluated through neutron radiography, electrical conductivity, and gravimetric analysis
    Cement and Concrete Research. 2019; 118: 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2019.02.011
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