Engineering biopolymers: Markets, manufacturing, properties and applications

Engineering Biopolymers: Markets, Manufacturing, Properties and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-675

  Endres, Hans Josef ^a   Siebert Raths, Andrea ^a  

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