Spouge's conjecture on complete and instantaneous gelation

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 96, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 1049-1070

  Jeon, Intae ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete and instantaneous gelation; Gelation; Marcus Lushnikov process; Smoluchowski coagulation equation; Sol gel interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033241710     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004640317274     Document Type: Article

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