Nitrocatecholic copolymers - synthesis and their remarkable binding affinity

Shenjie Qiu1, Jianqin Zhuang2, Shi Jin1

  • 1Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. nanloh.yang-cepm@csi.cuny.edu and PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 22, 2019
PubMed

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