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Namita Ojah1, Jyotishikha Deka1, Saurav Haloi2

  • 1a Laboratory for Plasma Processing of Materials, Department of Physics , Tezpur University , Tezpur , Assam , India.

Journal of Biomaterials Science. Polymer Edition
|May 22, 2019
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Keywords:
silk fibroinChitosanantibacterial activitydielectric barrier dischargedrug deliveryoxygen plasma

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