Pulling knotted polymers

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-59

  Farago, O ^a,b   Kantor, Y ^a,c   Kardar, M ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0036791364     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2002-00317-0     Document Type: Article

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