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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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Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers and Characterization of Their Diffusive Motion in the Melt State at the Single Molecule Level

Published on: September 26, 2016

A new mathematical approach for solving carrier-facilitated steady-state diffusion problems

L Hoofd, F Kreuzer

    Journal of Mathematical Biology
    |July 13, 1979
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