Viscoelasticity of solutions of motile polymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 4171-4174

  Liverpool, T B ^a,b   Maggs, A C ^a   Ajdari, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SOLUTIONS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ISOTROPIC SOLUTION; MOTILE POLYMERS; POLAR SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

ACTIN; MYOSIN; POLYMER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; VISCOSITY;

ACTINS; ELASTICITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MYOSINS; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0035971301     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4171     Document Type: Article

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