Effect of knotting on the shape of polymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 8281-8287

  Rawdon, Eric J ^a   Kern, John C ^b   Piatek, Michael ^c   Plunkett, Patrick ^d   Stasiak, Andrzej ^e   Millett, Kenneth C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICITY; ASYMPTOTIC SHAPES; CYCLIC POLYMERS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; MOMENTS OF INERTIAS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; RANDOM CONFIGURATIONS; RANDOM POLYGONS; SOLVENT QUALITIES; SPECIFIC EXPRESSIONS; SPHERICAL SYMMETRIES; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; UNIVERSAL SHAPES;

ABS RESINS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPHERES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 56549098965     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801389c     Document Type: Article

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