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Processing and properties of PLA-HA nanocomposites: The effect of particle morphology and dispersants Magdalena M. Tomczynska, Michael Ward, Gabriel Y. H. Choong, Kirsty Walton, Davide S. A. De Focatiis, David M. Grant, Derek J. Irvine, and Andrew J. Parsons

Citation: AIP Conference Proceedings 1914, 150004 (2017); doi: 10.1063/1.5016781 View online: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5016781 View Table of Contents: http://aip.scitation.org/toc/apc/1914/1 Published by the American Institute of Physics

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