Arrested Swelling of Highly Entangled Polymer Globules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4-

  Lee, Nam Kyung ^a,b   Abrams, Cameron F ^c   Johner, A ^a   Obukhov, S ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

^d Institut Charles Sadron ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONOMERS; SWELLING; TOPOLOGY;

POLYMER GLOBULES;

POLYMERS;

POLYMER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; POLYMERS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 85003411392     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.225504     Document Type: Article

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