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Molecular Entanglement and Electrospinnability of Biopolymers
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Special Issue on the International Symposium on Biological Polymers 2018
Bernd H A Rehm1, George Guo-Qiang Chen2
1Griffith University, Australia.
Biotechnology Journal
|December 11, 2019
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