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Author Correction: Nanofabrication of Conductive Metallic Structures on Elastomeric Materials
Edward K W Tan1, Girish Rughoobur2,3, Juan Rubio-Lara4
1Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK. ekwt2@cam.ac.uk.
Scientific Reports
|September 13, 2018
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