Molecular Mechanisms of Failure in Polymer Nanocomposites

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Gersappe, Dilip ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILLERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMERS; TOUGHNESS;

NANOSCOPIC FILLER PARTICLES; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037194136     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.058301     Document Type: Article

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