Quantifying primary loops in polymer gels by linear viscoelasticity
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Quantifying primary loops in polymer gels by linear viscoelasticity.
In polymeric gels, basically two species of cross-links exist: those contributing to the network and those that don’t. Zhou et al. (1) suggested network disassembly spectrometry to determine the content of loops— the simplest kind of network defects in gels. Although cross-links contributing to the network hold the gel together and are thus desirable, the noncontributing links (e.g., the loops ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303135110