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Bioactive Functionalisation of Silicones with Polysaccharides

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Silicones are oligomers or polymers of organic siloxanes, which are products of organochlorosilanes [1]. The basis for all silicones is quartz sand or silica from which silicon is obtained in the first phase (Eq. 1.1).

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    Matej Bračič, Simona Strnad & Lidija Fras Zemljič

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Bračič, M., Strnad, S., Fras Zemljič, L. (2018). Silicone in Medical Applications. In: Bioactive Functionalisation of Silicones with Polysaccharides. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02275-4_1

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