Continuous crossover from oblate to prolate backbone conformations in nematic side-chain polymers

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 337-343

  Wessels, P P F ^a,b   Mulder, B M ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0242319532     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2003-00186-5     Document Type: Article

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