Polymer surface melting mediated by capillary waves

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Herminghaus, Stephan ^a   Seemann, Ralf ^a   Landfester, Katharina ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; EMULSIONS; FREEZING; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; METALLIC FILMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SURFACE TENSION; VECTORS; VISCOELASTICITY;

CAPILLARY WAVES; GYRATION; MOLTEN LAYERS; RELAXATION RATES;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 3543096294     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.017801     Document Type: Article

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