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Advanced functional polymers for medicine
A special issue guest-edited by Andreas Lendlein has recently been published in Macromolecular Bioscience. Read selected highlights for free for a limited time!
Polyampholytes for biomedical applications
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Engineering teeth with a synthetic biomaterial
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