Probing collective motions of terminally anchored polymers

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5295, 1996, Pages 2041-2044

  Fytas, George ^a   Anastasiadis, Spiros H ^a,b   Seghrouchni, Rachid ^a   Vlassopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Li, Junbai ^a,c   Factor, Bradford J ^a,d   Theobald, Wolfgang ^a,e   Toprakcioglu, Chris ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e IBM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0030476761     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5295.2041     Document Type: Article

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