Structural and conformational dynamics of supercooled polymer melts: Insights from first-principles theory and simulations

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Chong, Song Ho ^a   Aichele, Martin ^b,c   Meyer, Hendrik ^c   Fuchs, Matthias ^d   Baschnagel, Jörg ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; SUPERCOOLING;

CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS; SEMIQUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SUPERCOOLED POLYMER MELTS;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 36749083401     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.051806     Document Type: Article

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