Application of carbon fibers to biomaterials: A new era of nano-level control of carbon fibers after 30-years of development

Chemical Society Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3824-3834

  Saito, Naoto ^a   Aoki, Kaoru ^b   Usui, Yuki ^b   Shimizu, Masayuki ^b   Hara, Kazuo ^b   Narita, Nobuyo ^b   Ogihara, Nobuhide ^b   Nakamura, Koichi ^b   Ishigaki, Norio ^b   Kato, Hiroyuki ^b   Haniu, Hisao ^a   Taruta, Seiichi ^a   Ahm Kim, Yoong ^a   Endo, Morinobu ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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EID: 79959385904     PISSN: 03060012     EISSN: 14604744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0cs00120a     Document Type: Article

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