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Borja Fernández-d'Arlas1, Miguel Ángel Huertos2, Alejandro J Müller3

  • 1INAMAT (Institute for Advanced Materials) y Departamento de Física, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), Centro Jerónimo de Ayanz, Campus Arrosadía, 31006 Pamplona, Spain; POLYMAT and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal 3, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

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Aqueous macromoleculesHofmeister seriesIon-macromolecule interactionsPolyurethaneSelf-assembly

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