Chemical power for microscopic robots in capillaries
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Chemical Power for Microscopic Robots in Capillaries
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عنوان ژورنال: Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1549-9634
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2009.10.002