Monte Carlo study of the coil-to-globule transition of a model polymeric system

Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 3651-3666

  Rissanou, Anastassia N ^a,b,d   Anastasiadis, Spiros H ^a,b,c   Bitsanis, Ioannis A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coil to globule transition; Computer modeling; Monte Carlo simulations; Statistical thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

COIL-TO-GLOBULE TRANSITION; COMPUTER MODELING; SCALING VARIABLES; VOLUME APPROXIMATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 33846009448     PISSN: 08876266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/polb.21024     Document Type: Article

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