Influence of a knot on the strength of a polymer strand

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6731, 1999, Pages 46-48

  Saitta, A Marco ^a   Soper, Paul D ^b   Wasserman, E ^b   Klein, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; MECHANICS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALKANES; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMERS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033529081     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19935     Document Type: Article

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