Strongly charged flexible polyelectrolytes in poor solvents: Molecular dynamics simulations with explicit solvent

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 6634-6647

  Chang, Rakwoo ^a   Yethiraj, Arun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; PHASE SEPARATION; SOLUTIONS; SOLVENTS;

CHARGED FLEXIBLE POLYELECTROLYTES; COUNTERIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POLYIONS;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 0037623221     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1558312     Document Type: Article

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