Degradation of biodegradable aliphatic polyesters

Scaffolding in Tissue Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 335-352

  Li, Suming ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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