Anomalous bending of a polyelectrolyte

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

Volumn 67, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages

  Zandi, Roya ^a   Rudnick, Joseph ^a   Golestanian, Ramin ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^c ISTPM   (Iran)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONFORMATIONS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ANOMALOUS BENDING; COULOMB INTERACTIONS; NONUNIFORM BENDING;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 42749106774     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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