Degradable interpenetrated polymeric networks/hydrogels

Environmentally Degradable Materials based on Multicomponent Polymeric Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 250-335

  Dumitriu, Raluca Petronela ^a   Oprea, Ana Maria ^a   Raschip, Irina Elena ^a   Vasile, Cornelia ^a  

^a PETRU PONI INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Romania)

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