Entropic control of particle sizes during viral self-assembly
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Entropic control of particle sizes during viral self-assembly
Morphologic diversity is observed across all families of viruses. Yet these supra-molecular assemblies are produced most of the time in a spontaneous way through complex molecular self-assembly scenarios. The modeling of these phenomena remains a challenging problem within the emerging field of Physical Virology. We present in this work a theoretical analysis aiming at highlighting the particul...
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عنوان ژورنال: New Journal of Physics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/035028