Ring polymers in melts and solutions: Scaling and crossover

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Sakaue, Takahiro ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSOVER REGIME; DENSE SYSTEMS; FLORY EXPONENT; LONG CHAINS; MANY-BODY EFFECT; RING POLYMERS; SIMPLE MEAN-FIELD THEORY; VAN DER WAALS THEORY;

MEAN FIELD THEORY; TOPOLOGY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 79960642296     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.167802     Document Type: Article

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