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The effect of steric restrictions on the coil-to-globule transition of a macromolecule that is amphiphilic at the level of a particular unit and capable of spontaneous formation of vesicle-like globules in excess solvent (without steric restrictions) was studied via computer simulation.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Glagoleva, V.V. Vasilevskaya, 2016, published in Vysokomolekulyarnye Soedineniya. Ser. A, 2016, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 207–217.
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Glagoleva, A.A., Vasilevskaya, V.V. Formation of a vesicle-like globule under steric restrictions. Polym. Sci. Ser. A 58, 292–301 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965545X16020097
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