Coherent Random Lasing Realized in Polymer Vesicles

Yaxin LI; Kang XIE; Xiaojuan ZHANG; Zhijia HU; Jiajun MA; Xianxian CHEN; Junxi ZHANG; Zhenming LIU; Dong CHEN

doi:10.1007/s13320-019-0577-2

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