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Deageon Kim and Dongoun Lee, “Engineering, Structural Materials and Biomaterials: A Review of Sustainable Engineering Using Advanced Biomaterials”, Journal of Machine and Computing, vol.3, no.4, pp. 545-555, October 2023. doi: 10.53759/7669/jmc202303046.
