Polymers near metal surfaces: Selective adsorption and global conformations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 156103/1-156103/4

  Delle Site, L ^a   Abrams, C F ^a   Alavi, A ^b   Kremer, K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHEMISORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NICKEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANGLE-RESOLVED X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CAR-PARRINELLO METHOD; FINITE-TEMPERATURE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS;

POLYCARBONATES;

EID: 0037037945     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.156103     Document Type: Article

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