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Wenting Zhang1, Haolin Zhang1, Tianlong He1

  • 1College of Chemistry and Life Science, Beijing University of Technology, 100 Pingleyuan, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100124, China.

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
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