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Su-Eon Jin1, Hyo-Eon Jin2

  • 1Research Institute for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea.

Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 27, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
antimicrobial activitybiomedical applicationnanoantibioticsphysicochemical characteristicszinc oxide nano/microparticles

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