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Research Article

A coarse-grain MD (molecular dynamic) simulation of PCL–PEG and PLA–PEG aggregation as a computational model for prediction of the drug-loading efficacy of doxorubicin

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Pages 4215-4221 | Received 10 Aug 2018, Accepted 22 Oct 2018, Published online: 10 Jan 2019

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