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Ricardo Scheepers Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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*The Effect of Laundering on the Physical and Thermal Properties of Phase Change Textile… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105064*

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