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E Bruce Nauman1, Kandarp Patel, Pankaj Karande

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.

Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy
|July 9, 2010
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