Intramolecular Diffusive Motion in Alkane Monolayers Studied by High-Resolution Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 461031-461034

  Hansen, F Y ^a   Criswell, L ^b   Fuhrmann, D ^b,f   Herwig, K W ^c   Diama, A ^b   Dimeo, R M ^d   Neumann, D A ^d   Volkmann, U G ^e   Taub, H ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAPHITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOLAYERS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARAFFINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

INTRAMOLECULAR DIFFUSIVE MOTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (MD) SIMULATION; QUASIELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING (QNS);

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 1442331390     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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