Adhesives from Waste Protein Biomass for Oriented Strand Board Composites: Development and Performance. Issue 8 (10th March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mekonnen, Tizazu H.; Mussone, Paolo G.; Choi, Phillip; Bressler, David C.
• Is Part Of: Macromolecular materials and engineering. Volume 299:Issue 8(2014:Aug.)
• Page Start: 1003
• Page End: 1012
• Publication Date: 2014-03-10
• Subjects: Plastics -- Periodicals; Polymers -- Periodicals; Polymerization -- Periodicals; 547.705
• DOI: 10.1002/mame.201300402
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1438-7492

Abstract

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