Quantifying the Chain Folding in Polymer Single Crystals by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy
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عنوان ژورنال: ACS Macro Letters
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2161-1653,2161-1653
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00607