Knots in charged polymers

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Dommersnes, Paul G ^a,b   Kantor, Yacov ^a,c   Kardar, Mehran ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ASPECT RATIO; DOI KINETIC THEORY; LINEAR FLOWS; NEMATIC POLYMERS;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFUSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SHEAR FLOW;

KINETIC THEORY;

ARTICLE;

EID: 41349099162     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.031802     Document Type: Article

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