Fabrication of polymer micro needles for transdermal drug delivery system using DLP based projection stereo-lithography

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Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of 18th CIRP Conference on Electro Physical and Chemical Machining (ISEM XVIII) doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2016.02.194

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