Stepwise elastic behavior in a model elastomer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 25, 2004, Pages

  Bhawe, Dhananjay M ^a   Cohen, Claude ^a   Escobedo, Fernando A ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO (MC) SIMULATION; MULTIPLE ORDERED CHAIN DOMAINS; SEMIFLEXIBLE CHAINS; STEPWISE ELASTIC RESPONSE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSLINKING; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MUSCLE; PROTEINS; STRAIN; STRESSES; TOUGHNESS;

ELASTOMERS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 42749108902     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.257804     Document Type: Article

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