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Peng-Fei Qiu1, Lei Qiang2, Weiqing Kong3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.

National Science Review
|January 20, 2025
PubMed

Keywords:
scaffoldsshape-memory polymerskeletal musclestimuli responsivenessvolumetric muscle loss

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