Predicting polymer flow during high-temperature atomic force microscope nanoindentation

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 8096-8103

  Rowland, Harry D ^a   King, William P ^a   Sun, Amy C ^b   Schunk, P Randy ^b   Cross, Graham L W ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONISOTHERMAL SIMULATIONS; POLYMER COIL RADIUS; POLYMER FLOW; SUBCONTINUUM POLYMERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FILM THICKNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOINDENTATION; POLYMER FILMS;

NANOPROBES;

EID: 36048961436     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0704358     Document Type: Article

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