Monte Carlo study of heteroarm star copolymers in good and selective solvents

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 512-523

  Havránková, Jitka ^a   Limpouchová, Zuzana ^a   Procházka, Karel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; Conformational analysis; Lattice models; Monte Carlo simulation; Star polymers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLVENTS;

SOLVENT QUALITY;

COPOLYMERS;

COPOLYMER; SOLVENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GRAVITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 0041821885     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mats.200350012     Document Type: Article

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