On the Scaling of the Critical Solution Temperature of Binary Polymer Blends with Chain Length

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 900-910

  Escobedo, Fernando A ^a,b   De Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CHEMICAL MISMATCH PARAMETER; FLORY-HUGGINS THEORY; HISTOGRAM WEIGHTING ANALYSIS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; UPPER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE (UCST);

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0033537416     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9812276     Document Type: Article

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