Mechanical heterogeneities in model polymer glasses at small length scales

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Yoshimoto, Kenji ^a   Jain, Tushar S ^a   Van Workum, Kevin ^b   Nealey, Paul F ^a   De Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MONOMERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

AMORPHOUS POLYMERIC GLASSES; LOCAL MODULI; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; POSITIVE MODULI;

POLYMERIC GLASS;

EID: 19744380961     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.175501     Document Type: Article

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