Coarse-graining: A procedure to generate equilibrated and relaxed models of amorphous polymers

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1929-1935

  Curcó, David ^a   Alemán, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amorphous polymer; Coarse grained models; Coarse graining methods; Monte Carlo simulations; Polyethylene

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYETHYLENES; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; COARSE-GRAINED MODELS; COARSE-GRAINING METHODS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 34547350781     PISSN: 01928651     EISSN: 1096987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.20723     Document Type: Article

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