Effect of polydispersity on the depletion interaction in nonadsorbing polymer solutions

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

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Yang, Shuang ^a   Tan, Hongge ^a   Yan, Dadong ^a   Nies, E ^b,d   Shi, An Chang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHAIN LENGTH; CONFORMATIONS; POLYDISPERSITY;

DERJAGUIN APPROXIMATION; SCHULZ MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

POLYMERS;

EID: 34547240810     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061803     Document Type: Article

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