Chain conformations and bound-layer correlations in polymer nanocomposites

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Sen, Sudeepto ^a,e   Xie, Yuping ^a   Kumar, Sanat K ^a,e   Yang, Hoichang ^a   Bansal, Amitabh ^b   Ho, Derek L ^c   Hall, Lisa ^d   Hooper, Justin B ^d   Schweizer, Kenneth S ^d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYSTYRENES; SILICA;

CHAIN CONFORMATIONS; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; LIQUID STATE THEORY; POLYMER CORRELATIONS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 33947600395     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.128302     Document Type: Article

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