Frequency-dependent stiffening of semiflexible networks: A dynamical nonaffine to affine transition
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Frequency-dependent stiffening of semiflexible networks: a dynamical nonaffine to affine transition.
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.061902