Conformation of polymer brushes under shear: Chain tilting and stretching

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2289-2297

  Miao, Ling ^a   Guo, Hong ^a   Zuckermann, Martin J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0001050766     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma951071z     Document Type: Article

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