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Correction: Bioaccumulation of polystyrene nanoplastics and their effect on the toxicity of Au ions in zebrafish embryos
Summary
This entry is a published correction to a prior study on the bioaccumulation of polystyrene nanoplastics and their effects on gold ion toxicity in zebrafish embryos.
Correction for ‘Bioaccumulation of polystyrene nanoplastics and their effect on the toxicity of Au ions in zebrafish embryos’ by Wang Sik Lee et al. , Nanoscale , 2019, DOI: 10.1039/c8nr09321k.
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