Conformational characteristics of polymethylene chains in melts and in various phantom chains from explicit atom molecular dynamics simulations

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 7245-7252

  Han, Jie ^a   Jaffe, Richard L ^a   Yoon, Do Y ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYETHYLENES; SOLVENTS;

INTRAMOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHANTOM CHAIN; POLYMETHYLENE;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0031274975     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma961772b     Document Type: Article

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