Effect of equilibration on primitive path analyses of entangled polymers

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Hoy, Robert S ^a   Robbins, Mark O ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MICROSTRUCTURE; NEON; QUENCHING; STRETCHING;

ENTANGLEMENT DENSITY; LARGE-SCALE CHAIN STATISTICS; MELT STATE; PRIMITIVE PATH ANALYSIS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 33244488459     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.061802     Document Type: Article

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