Polymer-specific effects of bulk relaxation and stringlike correlated motion in the dynamics of a supercooled polymer melt

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5290-5304

  Aichele, M ^a,b   Gebremichael, Y ^c,d   Starr, F W ^e,f   Baschnagel, J ^a   Glotzer, S C ^c  

^a INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SUPERCOOLING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

ATOMIC LIQUIDS; BULK RELAXATION; MODE COUPLING THEORY; SUPERCOOLED POLYMER MELT;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0141540536     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1597473     Document Type: Article

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