Role of flexibility in entanglement

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

Volumn 70, Issue 1 1, 2004, Pages

  Buck, Gregory ^a   Rawdon, Eric J ^b  

^a SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONFORMATIONS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TUBING;

ENTANGLEMENT; FLEXIBILITY; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; POLYMER STRANDS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 42749100050     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011803     Document Type: Article

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