Collapse of stiff conjugated polymers with chemical defects into ordered, cylindrical conformations

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6790, 2000, Pages 1030-1033

  Hu, Dehong ^a   Yu, Ji ^a   Wong, Kim ^a   Bagchl, Biman ^b   Rossky, Peter J ^a   Barbara, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034729762     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016520     Document Type: Article

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