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Loshini S Dandeniyage1,2, Warren Knower2, Raju Adhikari2

  • 1School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia.

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part B, Applied Biomaterials
|March 6, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
in vitro degradationmedical implantsmixed macrodioloxidative stabilitysiloxane poly(urethane urea)

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