Counting primary loops in polymer gels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19119-19124

  Zhou, Huaxing ^a   Woo, Jiyeon ^a   Cok, Alexandra M ^a   Wang, Muzhou ^b   Olsen, Bradley D ^b   Johnson, Jeremiah A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Network disassembly spectrometry; Responsive materials; Tetrazine; Topology

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; GEL; PRIMARY LOOP; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84869748941     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213169109     Document Type: Article

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