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Booth, M.J., Restrepo Schild, V., Downs, F.G., Bayley, H. (2019). Droplet Networks, from Lipid Bilayers to Synthetic Tissues. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_567-1
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