Bioinspiration: Something for everyone

Interface Focus

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinspiration; Chemical biology; Chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930807261     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2015.0031     Document Type: Review

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