Conformational transitions in semiflexible dendrimers induced by bond orientations

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Kumar, Amit ^a   Biswas, Parbati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND ORIENTATION; BOND VECTORS; CONFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; DECONGESTING; DIRECTION ANGLE; HARD SPHERES; LIMITING VALUES; MOLECULAR SIZE; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SCATTERING CURVE; SHAPE FACTOR; SHARP CONTRAST; STATIC STRUCTURE FACTORS; STERIC CROWDING; STRUCTURE FACTORS; THEORETICAL RESULT; WAVE NUMBERS; WIENER INDEX;

DENDRIMERS; FREE ENERGY; LANTHANUM; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SPHERES;

CONFORMATIONS;

DENDRIMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DENDRIMERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION;

EID: 84867025160     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4754871     Document Type: Article

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