Monte Carlo scheme for generation and relaxation of dense and nearly jammed random structures of freely jointed hard-sphere chains

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1537-1551

  Karayiannis, Nikos Ch ^a   Laso, Manuel ^a  

^a Polytechnic University of Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

CHAIN DIMENSIONS; TORSION ANGLE DISTRIBUTIONS;

SPHERES;

EID: 40549135366     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma702264u     Document Type: Article

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