Degradable copolymers

Environmentally Degradable Materials based on Multicomponent Polymeric Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 146-249

  Vasile, Cornelia ^a  

^a PETRU PONI INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Romania)

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