New Interpretation of Local Dynamics of Poly(Dimethyl Siloxane) Observed by Quasielastic Neutron Scattering

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 4-

  Arrighi, Valeria ^a   Ganazzoli, Fabio ^b   Zhang, Chuhong ^a   Gagliardi, Simona ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS TRANSITION; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; MELTING; MONOMERS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPECTROMETERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LOCAL DYNAMICS; POLYDIMETHYL SILOXANE; QUASIELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

DIMETICONE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; NEUTRON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ELASTICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NEUTRONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037423197     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.058301     Document Type: Article

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