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Inkjet-printed Polyvinyl Alcohol Multilayers
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Thin polymer layers formed using multiarm poly(ethylene glycol) vinylsulfone by a covalent layer-by-layer method
Jinku Kim1, Bradley K Wacker, Donald L Elbert
1Department of Chemical Engineering and Center for Materials Innovation, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Biomacromolecules
|October 13, 2007
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