Can polymer coils be modeled as “soft colloids”?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2522-2525

  Louis, A A ^a   Bolhuis, P G ^a   Hansen, J P ^a   Meijer, E J ^b  

^a Department of Chemistry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ORNSTEIN-ZERNIKE RELATION; SELF-AVOIDING WALKS (SAW) MODEL;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0034683316     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2522     Document Type: Article

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