Thermoelectric Properties of Hornet Silk Caps during Different Stages of Pupation

Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 129-140

  Litinetsky, Liuba ^a   Steinovitz, Hila ^a   Ishay, Jacob S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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