Recent Progress on COS-derived Polymers
- Corresponding author: Xing-Hong Zhang, xhzhang@zju.edu.cn
Citation:
Cheng-Jian Zhang, Xing-Hong Zhang. Recent Progress on COS-derived Polymers[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science,
;2019, 37(10): 951-958.
doi:
10.1007/s10118-019-2288-y
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