Hydrogel ionotronics

Nature Reviews Materials - Tập 3 Số 6 - Trang 125-142
Canhui Yang1, Zhigang Suo1
1John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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