Cryo-tem, X-ray diffraction and modeling of an organic hydrogel

Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 721-742

  Estroff, Lara A ^a   Hamilton, Andrew D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952514469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3689-2_21     Document Type: Chapter

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