Free energy of a wormlike polymer chain confined in a slit: Crossover between two scaling regimes

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7769-7773

  Chen, Jeff Z Y ^a   Sullivan, D E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

POLYMER CHAINS; SCALING BEHAVIORS;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 33751572940     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma060871e     Document Type: Article

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