Polyethylene under tensil load: Strain energy storage and breaking of linear and knotted alkanes probed by first-principles molecular dynamics calculations

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 9434-9440

  Saitta, A Marco ^a   Klein, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001121945     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.479855     Document Type: Article

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