Dependency of swelling on the length of subchain in poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide)-based gels

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2906-2910

  Bromberg, Lev ^a   Grosberg, Alexander Yu ^a,b   Matsuo, Eriko Sato ^a   Suzuki, Yasuo ^a   Tanaka, Toyoichi ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0001338118     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474084     Document Type: Article

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