Hydrogel Walkers with Electro-Driven Motility for Cargo Transport

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yang, Chao ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Yao, Chen ^a   Xie, Rui ^a   Ju, Xiao Jie ^a   Liu, Zhuang ^a   Chu, Liang Yin ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84940496589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13622     Document Type: Article

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