Long-range interactions in polymer melts: The anti-casimir effect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Obukhov, S P ^a,b   Semenov, A N ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-CASIMIR EFFECT; FLUCTUATION-INDUCED REPULSION; NET REPULSION; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; POLYMER MELTS;

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MONOMERS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 27144483326     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.038305     Document Type: Article

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