Entanglement relaxation time in polyethylene: Simulation versus experimental data

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2959-2962

  Ramos, Javier ^a,b   Vega, Juan F ^a   Theodorou, Doros N ^b   Martinez Salazar, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; RELAXATION PROCESSES; VISCOELASTICITY;

PLATEAU MODULUS; RELAXATION SHEAR MODULUS;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 43649098975     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma702445e     Document Type: Article

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