A statistical theory of cosolvent-induced coil-globule transitions in dilute polymer solution

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Budkov, Yu A ^a   Kolesnikov, A L ^b,c   Georgi, N ^d   Kiselev, M G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLUTION CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b IVANOVO STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CONFORMATIONS;

COIL-GLOBULE TRANSITIONS; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; DILUTE POLYMER SOLUTIONS; INTERACTION STRENGTH; LOW-MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; STATISTICAL MODELING;

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EID: 84903975517     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4884958     Document Type: Article

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