Powder metallurgy inspired low-temperature fabrication of high-performance stereocomplexed polylactide products with good optical transparency

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bai, Dongyu ^a   Liu, Huili ^a   Bai, Hongwei ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84957824387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20260     Document Type: Article

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