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Advanced Functional Materials
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Paper-based Surfaces with Extreme Wettabilities for Novel Microfluidic Devices
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Graphene Reinforced Carbon Nanotube Networks for Strain Sensing Application
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Light-induced color change in the sapphirinid copepods
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Red-Blood-Cell-Mimetic Nanoparticles against Breast Cancer
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Strong Cooperation in Soft Matter – Chinese and Dutch Researchers meet in Nijmegen
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Bioinspired magnetic nanoparticles
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