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Tashiro, K., Yamamoto, H., Hanesaka, M. (2013). Recent Progress in Static and Dynamic Structural Analysis of Crystalline Polymers Studied from a Microscopic Point of View. In: Palsule, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymers and Composites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37179-0_28-1

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