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Xuejiao Wang1, Zhi Su1, Lan Zheng1

  • 1Fujian-Taiwan Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Industrial Biocatalysis, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, China.

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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Keywords:
Antibacterial switchCucurbit[8]urilHost-guest conformationLight controlSupramolecular assembly

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