Kirkwood Diffusivity of Long Semiflexible Chains in Nanochannel Confinement
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Macromolecules
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0024-9297,1520-5835
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00377