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   \item "Basic Concepts on 3D Cell Culture" edited by Cornelia Kasper, Dominik Egger and Antonina Lavrentieva, Springer, 2021.
   \item "Optofluidics: Fundamentals, Devices, and Applications" by David Erickson and Demetri Psaltis, McGraw-Hill, 2009
  \item  B.E.A. Saleh and M.C.Teich, ``Fundamentals of Photonics'', 2nd Edn. Wiley, 2007.
  \item  S.O. Kasap, ``Optoelectronics and Photonics'', 1st. Edn. Prentice-Hall, 2001.
  \item  Andrea Cusano,Marco Consales, Alessio Crescitelli, Armando Ricciardi, ``Lab-on-Fiber Technology'', Springer 2015, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06998-2
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