Double-network strategy improves fracture properties of chondroitin sulfate networks

ACS Macro Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 137-140

  Suekama, Tiffany C ^a   Hu, Jian ^b   Kurokawa, Takayuki ^b   Gong, Jian Ping ^b   Gehrke, Stevin H ^a  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84874060439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21611653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mz3006318     Document Type: Article

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