Static and dynamic properties of polymer brushes at moderate and high grafting densities: A molecular dynamics study

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 6721-6730

  He, Gui Li ^a   Merlitz, Holger ^a   Sommer, Jens Uwe ^b   Wu, Chen Xu ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS; SURFACE TENSION;

DYNAMIC PROPERTIES; LANGEVIN-TYPE MODEL; ROUSE SCALING;

GRAFT COPOLYMERS;

EID: 34748840417     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma070983l     Document Type: Article

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