Conformations of Flexible Dendrimers: A Simulation Study

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 8189-8197

  Gotze I O ^a   Likos, C N ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND STATE; MACROMOLECULES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

GYRATION; SCALING LAWS;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 10744221269     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma030137k     Document Type: Article

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