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Hector Lopez Hernandez1, Olivia P Lee2, Catherine M Possanza Casey2

  • 1Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
|May 1, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
ceiling temperaturemetastable polymerspolyphthalaldehydetransient electronicstriggered depolymerization

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