Thermoreversible gelation is a Bose-Einstein condensation

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Tanaka, Fumihiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; CONDENSATION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERS; SOL-GELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTERS; CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS; OSMOTIC COMPRESSIBILITY; THERMOREVERSIBLE;

GELATION;

EID: 33745029712     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.061405     Document Type: Article

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