Coarse graining of short polythylene chains for studying polymer crystallization

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 616-629

  Vettorel, Thomas ^a,b   Meyer, Hendrik ^a  

^a INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 33846254650     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct0503264     Document Type: Article

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