Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
β Scribed by Dr. Rudolf Zentel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 988 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0935-9648
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