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Zhongxue Dai1, Honglian Gu1, Shangjie Zhang1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211800, PR China.

Bioresource Technology
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