Chain dynamics of bidisperse polyethylene melts: A Monte Carlo study on a high-coordination lattice

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 959-966

  Lin, Heng ^a   Mattice, Wayne L ^a   Von Meerwall, Ernst D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HESS THEORY; HIGH-COORDINATION LATTICES; POLYETHYLENE MELTS; ROUSE-REPTATION TRANSITIONAL REGION;

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL RELAXATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COORDINATION REACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYMER MELTS;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 33847709967     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma062088s     Document Type: Article

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