Primitive path identification and entanglement statistics in polymer melts: Results from direct topological analysis on atomistic polyethylene models

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4207-4216

  Foteinopoulou, Katerina ^a,b   Karayiannis, Nikos Ch ^a,b   Mavrantzas, Vlasis G ^a,b   Kröger, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CROSSLINKING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS;

POLYMER CHAIN; PRIMITIVE PATH IDENTIFICATION; RANDOM WALK STATISTICS; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 33745805377     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma060306b     Document Type: Article

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