Crystal structure and melting entropy of natural rubber

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1223-1231

  Immirzi, Attilio ^a   Tedesco, Consiglia ^a   Monaco, Guglielmo ^a   Tonelli, Alan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONFORMATION; LINEAR POLYMERS; MELTING ENTROPY; ROTATIONAL ISOMERIC STATE (RIS); TORSION ANGLES;

CONFORMATIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

RUBBER;

EID: 14644442900     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma047935a     Document Type: Article

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