Boundary effects in chiral polymer hexatics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3109-3112

  Kamien, Randall D ^a   Levine, Alex J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0008432386     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3109     Document Type: Article

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