Generating multichain configurations of an inhomogeneous melt from the knowledge of single-chain properties

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Hömberg, Martin ^a   Müller, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; CONFORMATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROCESS MONITORING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RHENIUM; SUBSTRATES; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (LIQUID + LIQUID) EQUILIBRIUM; (PL) PROPERTIES; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); CHAIN CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; INTERMOLECULAR CORRELATIONS; LOCAL FLUCTUATIONS; MEAN FIELDS; MEAN-FIELD APPROACHES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS (MDS); PACKING ALGORITHMS; POLYMER SYSTEMS; SOLID SUBSTRATE (SS); SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 45149128076     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2939009     Document Type: Article

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