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The dynamics of genomiclength dna molecules in 100nm. This text provides a thoroughly modern graduatelevel introduction to the theory of critical behaviour. Dynamics of fluctuations and spinodal decomposition in. Using this method, we derived the known results for the viscosity of solutions in good solvents. The first stage of the physics of long, flexible chain. Advances in colloid and interface science, 27 1987 189209 elsevier science publishers b.
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