Analysis on the network node of Konjac glucomannan molecular chain

Jiegou Huaxue

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1253-1260

  Wen, Cheng Rong ^a   Sun, Zhong Qi ^a   Pang, Jie ^a   Ma, Zhen ^a   Shen, Ben Shu ^a   Xie, Bing Qing ^a   Jing, Pu ^b  

^a FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Knot; Konjac glucomannon; Network node; Topological entanglement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906320141     PISSN: 02545861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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