Methods to determine the pressure dependence of the molecular order parameter in (bio)macromolecular fibres

Arthur Markus Anton1, Christof Gutsche, Wilhelm Kossack

  • 1Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften, Institut für Experimentelle Physik I, Abteilung Molekülphysik, Linnéstraße 5, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. anton@physik.uni-leipzig.de.

Soft Matter
|January 6, 2015
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