A quantitative theory of mechanical unfolding of a homopolymer globule

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1629-1643

  Polotsky, Alexey A ^a   Daoud, Mohamed ^b   Borisov, Oleg V ^a,c   Birshtein, Tatiana M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; MEAN FIELD THEORY;

DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; FORCE-EXTENSION CURVES; HOMOPOLYMER GLOBULES; MECHANICAL UNFOLDING; QUANTITATIVE MEAN-FIELD THEORY; QUANTITATIVE THEORY; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 76149122147     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma902302p     Document Type: Article

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