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Fabricating Superhydrophobic Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
Published on: August 28, 2015
Environmentally stable super water-repellent poly(alkylpyrrole) films
Hu Yan1, Kazutomo Kurogi, Hiroyuki Mayama
1Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan. yanhu@es.hokudai.ac.jp
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 30, 2005
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