Small angle neutron scattering observation of chain retraction after a large step deformation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Blanchard, A ^a   Graham, R S ^b   Heinrich, M ^a   Pyckhout Hintzen, W ^a   Richter, D ^a   Likhtman, A E ^c   McLeish, T C B ^c   Read, D J ^c   Straube, E ^d   Kohlbrecher, J ^e  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN RETRACTION; SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING (SANS);

DEFORMATION; QUENCHING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; VECTORS;

NEUTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 28844445719     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.166001     Document Type: Article

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