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Lei Du1, Amin GhavamiNejad2, Zhi-Chao Yan3

  • 1College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, PR China; Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and System of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 516080, PR China.

Carbohydrate Polymers
|August 26, 2018
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Fourier-transform-rheologyFunctional polymerLarge-amplitude oscillatory shearSelf-healingSodium alginate

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