Chain motion in an unentangled polyethylene melt: A critical test of the rouse model by molecular dynamics simulations and neutron spin echo spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2346-2349

  Paul, W ^a   Smith, G D ^b   Yoon, D Y ^c   Farago, B ^d   Rathgeber, S ^e   Zirkel, A ^e   Willner, L ^e   Richter, D ^e  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; POLYETHYLENES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHAIN MOTION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NEUTRON SPIN ECHO SPECTROSCOPY; POLYETHYLENE MELT; ROUSE MODEL;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 11744270687     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2346     Document Type: Article

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