Direct measurement of the intermolecular forces confining a single molecule in an entangled polymer solution

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Robertson, Rae M ^a   Smith, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

HARMONIC POTENTIAL; RELAXATION MODES; TRANSVERSE DISPLACEMENT;

POLYMER SOLUTIONS;

EID: 34748850017     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.126001     Document Type: Article

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