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Entropic Rigidity

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 6N5, Canada

    Béla Joós & Z. Zhou

  2. Department of Physics, Simon Eraser University, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada

    Michael Plischke & D.C. Vernon

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  1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

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Joós, B., Plischke, M., Vernon, D., Zhou, Z. (2002). Entropic Rigidity. In: Thorpe, M.F., Duxbury, P.M. (eds) Rigidity Theory and Applications. Fundamental Materials Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47089-6_17

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