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Shashank Kamdar1, Xiang Cheng1

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Microbial Cell (Graz, Austria)
|July 20, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
Bacterial motilityEscherichia colicolloidscomplex fluidsfluid mechanics

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