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(17) X.-J. Wu, J. Chen, C. Tan, Y. Zhu, Y. Han, H. Zhang, Controlled Growth of High-Density CdS and CdSe Nanorod Arrays on Selective Facets of Two-Dimension Semiconductor Nanoplates, Nat. Chem. 2016, 8, 470–475.

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