First observation of two-stage collapsing kinetics of a single synthetic polymer chain

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Xu, Jian ^b   Zhu, Zhiyuan ^b   Luo, Shizhong ^a   Wu, Chi ^a,c   Liu, Shiyong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CRUMPLED CHAIN; POLY(N-ISOPORPYLACRYLAMIDE) (PNIPAM); SINGLE SYNTHETIC POLYMER CHAIN; TWO-STAGE COLLAPSING KINETICS;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 32644455294     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.027802     Document Type: Article

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