Equilibrium properties of confined single-chain homopolymers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 9925-9932

  Maury Evertsz, Johnny R ^a   Estévez, L Antonio ^a   López, Gustavo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEPARATION; SPECIFIC HEAT; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COIL TO GLOBULE TRANSITION; HOMOPOLYMERS; PARALLEL TEMPERING ALGORITHM; POLYMER CHAINS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0345097592     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1616531     Document Type: Article

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