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Pooja Singhal1, Anthony Boyle1, Marilyn L Brooks2

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, 5045 Emerging Technologies Building, 3120 TAMU, College Station, TX-77843, USA.

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
|December 23, 2014
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actuation ratebiomaterialshydrophobicitypolyurethanesshape-memory foams

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