Coarse grained end bridging Monte Carlo simulations of poly(ethylene terephthalate) melt

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 710-722

  Kamio, Kazunori ^a   Moorthi, Krzysztof ^a   Theodorou, Doros N ^b  

^a MITSUI CHEMICALS INC   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; DIMERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CONFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES; ENTANGLEMENT DENSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTISCALE EQUILIBRATION;

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

EID: 33847041430     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma060803s     Document Type: Article

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