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Quantitative tube model for semiflexible polymer solutions

H Hinsch1, J Wilhelm, E Frey

  • 1Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center of NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 München, Germany.

The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|September 4, 2007
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