Polymer Clay Nano-Composites

Stefano Leporatti1

  • 1CNR Nanotec-Istituto di Nanotecnologia c\o Campus Ekotecne Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. stefano.leporatti@nanotec.cnr.it.

Polymers
|September 6, 2019
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