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Nishit Srivastava1, Jackson James2, K S Narayan1

  • 1Molecular Electronics Laboratory; Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research; Bangalore, India.

Organogenesis
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cell differentiationconducting polymerselectrostaticsneuronal cellsstretched substrates

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