The packing of granular polymer chains

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5951, 2009, Pages 408-410

  Zou, Ling Nan ^a   Cheng, Xiang ^a,b   Rivers, Mark L ^c   Jaeger, Heinrich M ^a   Nagel, Sidney R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

BEACH; DUNE; GLASS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMER; RIGIDITY; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350135153     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177114     Document Type: Article

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23. We thank P. Eng for his assistance and T. Witten for fruitful discussions. This work is supported by grants from NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (DMR-0820054) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) (DE-FG02-03ER46088). GSECARS is supported by grants from NSF (EAR-0622171) and DOE (DE-FG02-94ER14466). Use of the Advanced Photon Source is supported by DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357.