A review of chitin and chitosan applications

Reactive and Functional Polymers - Tập 46 Số 1 - Trang 1-27 - 2000
Majeti N. V. Ravi Kumar1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667, India

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