Evidence of strain hardening in DNA gels

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1530-1538

  Orakdogen, Nermin ^a   Erman, Burak ^b   Okay, Oguz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRS; BIOLOGICAL GELS; CONTOUR LENGTHS; CROSSLINKER; DNA GELS; DNA NETWORK; DNA STRANDS; ENTROPIC ELASTICITY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIGLYCIDYL ETHERS; EXTERNAL FORCE; GEL STATE; HEATING-COOLING CYCLE; KUHN LENGTHS; MAXIMUM DEGREE; NETWORK CHAINS; PARTIAL RECOVERY; PHYSICAL GEL; SHORT TIME SCALE; STRAIN AMPLITUDE; STRESS-INDUCED; TIME-SCALES; TISSUE INTEGRITY; WORM-LIKE CHAIN MODELS; YIELD STRAIN;

DEFORMATION; ETHERS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GELS; GENES; PLASTICITY; STRAIN HARDENING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DNA;

EID: 76149122866     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma902558f     Document Type: Article

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