Elastic moduli renormalization in self-interacting stretchable polyelectrolytes

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 9343-9350

  Podgornik, Rudi ^a,b,c   Hansen, Per Lyngs ^a   Parsegian, V Adrian ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); ELASTIC MODULI; PLASTIC DEFORMATION;

ELASTIC MODULI RENORMALIZATION; SELF-INTERACTING STRETCHABLE POLYELECTROLYTES; STRETCHING MODULI;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 0034318344     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1319380     Document Type: Article

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