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Metadata
- Authors
- SZWARC, M.
- Affiliations
- State University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- SZWARC, M.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1956-11
- Volume
- 178
- Issue
- 4543
- Pages
- 1168-1169
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W201298804
- Cited by
- 1,360
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 8.82
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- journal article
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- en
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
- Keywords
- living polymers, supramolecular polymerization, fluorinated cyclohexanes, self-assembly, polymerization kinetics
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