Thermodynamic and conformational changes upon stretching a poly(dimethylsiloxane) chain in the melt

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 8101-8107

  Smith, James S ^a   Bedrov, Dmitry ^a   Smith, Grant D ^a   Kober, Edward M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE) (PDMS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERS; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 25844463704     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma050772l     Document Type: Article

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