Theory of the effect of unsaturation on the main-chain transition

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1 1, 2003, Pages 119111-119118

  Scoville Simonds, M ^a   Schick, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CHOLESTEROL; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

DOUBLE BONDS;

ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0037691858     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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