Raft instability of biopolymer gels

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 158101-158101-4

  Borukhov, Itamar ^a   Bruinsma, Robijn F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOPOLYMERS; CROSSLINKING; GELATION; MIXTURES; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PHASE COMPOSITION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ACTIN GELS; ANISOTROPIC DEPLETION ATTRACTION; BIOPOLYMER GELS; LINKER CONCENTRATION; NEMATIC MIXTURE; RAFT INSTABILITY; SECOND ORDER VIRIAL METHOD; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM STATE; VOLUME THEORY;

GELS;

EID: 37649032708     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.158101     Document Type: Article

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