A very promising new glucolipidic surfactant: Lipowheat

A Djedour1, C Lafforgue, J-P Marty

  • 1Laboratoire de Physique Pharmaceutique, UMR CNRS 8612, Université Paris Sud, 92296 Châtenay-Malabry, France. amelds@yahoo.fr

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