Structural properties of crystallizable polymer melts: Intrachain and interchain correlation functions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Vettorel, Thomas ^a   Meyer, Hendrik ^a   Baschnagel, Jörg ^a   Fuchs, Matthias ^b  

^a INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; FREEZING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

KOYAMA APPROXIMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATION;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 34147147949     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.041801     Document Type: Article

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