Shaped Films of Ionotropic Hydrogels Fabricated Using Templates of Patterned Paper.

Adv Mater

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (USA).

Published: January 2009

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