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Functional polymer nanofibers: from spinning
fabrication techniques to recent biomedical applications
Danilo Martins dos Santos, Daniel S. Corrêa, Eliton S
Medeiros, Juliano Oliveira, and LUIZ Henrique C. MATTOSO
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