Kinetic equivalence of the heat and cold structural transitions of λ6-85

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1827, 2005, Pages 565-573

  Yang, Wei Y ^a,b   Gruebele, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold denaturation; Heat denaturation; Kinetics; Phase transition; Pressure denaturation; Temperature jump

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944261949     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1508     Document Type: Article

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