Macromolecular Stabilization by Excluded Cosolutes: Mean Field Theory of Crowded Solutions

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3478-3490

  Sapir, Liel ^a   Harries, Daniel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 84949668984     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00258     Document Type: Article

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