Conformational properties of blends of cyclic and linear polymer melts

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

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Subramanian, Gopinath ^a   Shanbhag, Sachin ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONFORMATIONS; MONOMERS; POLYMER MELTS;

ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; CONFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES; LINEAR CHAINS; LINEAR POLYMER MELTS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 38349107614     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.011801     Document Type: Article

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