Mechanical unfolding of a homopolymer globule studied by self-consistent field modeling

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5360-5371

  Polotsky, Alexey A ^a   Charlaganov, Marat I ^b   Leermakers, Frans A M ^c   Daoud, Mohamed ^c   Borisov, Oleg V ^a   Birshtein, Tatiana M ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONS; SOLVENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; DEGREE OF DEFORMATIONS; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; FLEXIBLE POLYMER CHAINS; FORCE - DEFORMATION CURVES; HOMOPOLYMER GLOBULES; MECHANICAL UNFOLDING; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 67651162224     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9004742     Document Type: Article

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