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Disentangling High Strength Copolymer Aramid Fibers to Enable the Determination of Their Mechanical Properties
Published on: September 1, 2018
Correction: Azevedo et al. Selective Elastane Removal Using DMSO-DBN Under Moderate Temperatures: From Pure Filaments
Tiago Azevedo1, Ana Catarina Silva1, Diego M Chaves1
1Centre for Textile Science and Technology (2C2T), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal.
Polymers
|May 13, 2026
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Ana Isabel Ribeiro was not included as an author in the original publication [...].
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