The polymer conformational stability and transitions: A quantum decoherence theory approach

Finely Dispersed Particles: Micro-, Nano-, and Atto-Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 217-231

  Dugić, Miroljub ^a   Raković, Dejan ^b   Plavsic, Milenko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

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