Nonlinear rheology of polymer melts: A new perspective on finite chain extensibility effects

Korea Australia Rheology Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 199-207

  Wagner, Manfred H ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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