Pathway complexity in supramolecular polymerization

Nature

Volumn 481, Issue 7382, 2012, Pages 492-496

  Korevaar, Peter A ^a   George, Subi J ^a   Markvoort, Albert J ^a   Smulders, Maarten M J ^a   Hilbers, Peter A J ^a   Schenning, Albert P H J ^a   De Greef, Tom F A ^a   Meijer, E W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGO(4 PHENYLENEVINYLENE); OLIGOMER; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGREGATION; BUILDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; MOLECULAR MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMERIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; TARTRATES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84856214495     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10720     Document Type: Article

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