Conformational changes of short, discrete Rouse chain during creep and recovery processes

Korea Australia Rheology Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 91-99

  Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Inoue, Tadashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Creep; Creep recovery; Discrete rouse model; Eigenmodes; Orientational anisotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 7544231205     PISSN: 1226119X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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