Extension of rod-coil multiblock copolymers and the effect of the helix-coil transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2160-2163

  Buhot, A ^a   Halperin, A ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

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EID: 0000925257     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2160     Document Type: Article

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