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Ali Pourjavadi1, Mohammad Kohestanian1, Mahdieh Shirzad2

  • 1Polymer Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Colloids and Surfaces. B, Biointerfaces
|November 19, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
Drug deliveryMagneticNanocarrierRAFT polymerizationpH sensitive

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