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Published: Nov 01, 2016
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Yuki Nakata

Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan

Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan

Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering Yale University New Haven Connecticut 06511

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Taro Hitosugi

Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan; PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan

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Keiji Ueno

Department of Chemistry; Saitama University

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Takafumi Sato

Drug Discovery and Disease Research Laboratory, Shionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan

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Yuki Nakata, Katsuaki Sugawara, Ryota Shimizu, et al. (2016). Monolayer 1T-NbSe2 as a Mott insulator. NPG Asia Materials, 8(11), e321-e321. https://doi.org/10.1038/am.2016.157

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