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On Davydov's alpha-helix solitons

✍ Scribed by J.M. Hyman; D.W. McLaughlin; A.C. Scott


Book ID
103573377
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
874 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-2789

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