On the Road to Biopolymer Aerogels-Dealing with the Solvent

Raman Subrahmanyam1, Pavel Gurikov2, Paul Dieringer3

  • 1Institute of Thermal Separation Processes, Hamburg University of Technology, Eißendorfer Straße 38, 21073 Hamburg, Germany. raman.subrahmanyam@tuhh.de.

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|January 25, 2019
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