Grand canonical investigations of prototypical polyelectrolyte models beyond the mean field level of approximation

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

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Baeurle, Stephan A ^a,b   Charlot, Magali ^c   Nogovitsin, Evgenij A ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Rhodia Recherches   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOLUTION CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; MACROMOLECULES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

COLLOIDAL SCIENCE; FIELD-THEORETIC METHODOLOGIES; INTERMONOMER INTERACTIONS; POLYELECTROLYTE MODELS;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 33846683958     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.011804     Document Type: Article

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