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Xue, Y., Ratner, M.A. (2006). Molecular Electronics: from Physics to Computing. In: Chen, J., Jonoska, N., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Nanotechnology: Science and Computation. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30296-4_14

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