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Patterning of Microorganisms and Microparticles through Sequential Capillarity-assisted Assembly
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Electrochemically triggered assembly of films: a one-pot morphogen-driven buildup
Gaulthier Rydzek1, Loïc Jierry, Audrey Parat
1Institut Charles Sadron (UPR 22), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 23 rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, France.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 16, 2011
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