Characterization of void space in polydisperse sphere packings: Applications to hard-sphere packings and to protein

Moumita Maiti1, Arun Lakshminarayanan, Srikanth Sastry

  • 1Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR, 560065, Jakkur, Banglore, India.

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