The establishment of the nitrogen‐fixing symbiosis between soybean and
An integrated electrocatalytic nESI-MS platform for quantification of fatty acid isomers directly from untreated biofluids
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- Award ID(s):
- 1900271
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10244158
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Chemical Science
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 36
- ISSN:
- 2041-6520
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 9891 to 9897
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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