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Fabricating Highly Open Porous Microspheres (HOPMs) via Microfluidic Technology
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Crystalline, porous microspheres made from amino acids by using polymer-induced liquid precursor phases
Sebastian Wohlrab1, Helmut Cölfen, Markus Antonietti
1Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Research Campus Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|June 2, 2005
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