Self-assembly of patchy particles into polymer chains: A parameter-free comparison between Wertheim theory and Monte Carlo simulation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Sciortino, Francesco ^a   Bianchi, Emanuela ^a   Douglas, Jack F ^b   Tartaglia, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYMERIZATION; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CHAIN LENGTH DISTRIBUTION; PATCHY PARTICLES; POLYMER CHAINS; WERTHEIM PERTURBATION THEORY;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 34249035819     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2730797     Document Type: Article

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