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Special Controlled-Release Systems

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In this chapter, we shall briefly examine some controlled-release systems not widely modeled mathematically. Nevertheless, these systems are interesting since they offer a wide range of performance capabilities, and also constitute interesting modeling problems.

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Fan, Lt., Singh, S.K. (1989). Special Controlled-Release Systems. In: Controlled Release. Polymers, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74507-2_5

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