Strongly Charged, Flexible Polyelectrolytes in Poor Solvents: Molecular Dynamics Simulations†
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عنوان ژورنال: Langmuir
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0743-7463,1520-5827
DOI: 10.1021/la981191a