Continuous melting of compact polymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Jacobsen, Jesper Lykke ^a   Kondev, Jané ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONDENSATION; CONFORMATIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DNA; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPACT POLYMERS; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; FIRST-ORDER TRANSITION; SEMIFLEXIBLE LOOP MODEL (SFL);

POLYMERS;

DNA; LIPID BILAYER; POLYMER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENTROPY; LIPID BILAYER; SURFACE PROPERTY;

DNA; ENTROPY; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 3142559804     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.210601     Document Type: Article

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