Carbon-carbon torsional barriers driving the fast dynamics in glass-forming polymers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 13508-13513

  Colmenero, J ^a   Arbe, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

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EID: 0000288722     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.13508     Document Type: Article

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