Swelling and shrinking of polymer chains in homopolymer blends

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 447-456

  Aksimentiev, Aleksij ^a   Hołyst, Robert ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

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EID: 0542393804     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3919(19980901)7:5<447::AID-MATS447>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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