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Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers and Characterization of Their Diffusive Motion in the Melt State at the Single Molecule Level
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Universality class of the d=2 Theta point of linear polymers

Seno, Stella, Vanderzande

    Physical Review Letters
    |September 26, 1988
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