Monte Carlo simulations of single crystals from polymer solutions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Jianing ^a   Muthukumar, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION;

ANISOTROPIC AGGREGATION; POLYMER SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL ROUGHENINGS;

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 34547302272     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2740256     Document Type: Article

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