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Toward the supramolecular structure of collagen: a molecular dynamics approach

Susanna Monti1, Simona Bronco, Chiara Cappelli

  • 1Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IPCF-CNR), Area della Ricerca, via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy. s.monti@ipcf.cnr.it

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|July 21, 2006
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