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ArticleNPJ biofilms and microbiomes2016

Revealing region-specific biofilm viscoelastic properties by means of a micro-rheological approach.

Huayu Cao, Olivier Habimana, Ashkan Safari, Rory Heffernan, Yihong Dai, Eoin Casey

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Article in NPJ biofilms and microbiomes, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Testing Anti-Biofilm Polymeric Surfaces: Where to Start?International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Huayu Cao *School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Olivier Habimana *School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China.
Ashkan SafariSchool of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Rory HeffernanSchool of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Yihong DaiSchool of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Eoin CaseySchool of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Particle-tracking microrheology is an

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PMID28649399
PMCPMC5460257

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