One-Step Fabrication of Enzyme-Immobilized Reusable Polymerized Microcapsules from Microfluidic Droplets

Rohit Varshney1, Shubhra Sharma2, Bhanu Prakash1

  • 1Habitat Centre, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Phase-10, Sector-64, Mohali, Punjab 160062, India.

ACS Omega
|September 10, 2019
PubMed

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