Elasticity of Stiff Polymer Networks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Wilhelm, Jan ^a   Frey, Erwin ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOPOLYMERS; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

ANISOTROPY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); ELASTICITY; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS);

POLYMER NETWORKS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 18244416087     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.108103     Document Type: Article

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