Perspectives on Silica Nanomaterials

These studies were supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant CHE-0616878, NSF REU grant CHE-0552762. North Dakota Water Resource Research Institute, and North Dakota DOE EPSCoR Seed Awards. The authors thank Mr Ke Xu at Harvard University for editing the manuscript. 

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