Properties of star-branched polymer brushes

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 393-398

  Romiszowski, Piotr ^a   Sikorski, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLVENTS;

CHAIN CONFORMATION; GRAFTING DENSITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STAR BRANCHED POLYMER BRUSHES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 1842740294     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci030407y     Document Type: Article

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