Self-assembly of nanoparticle mixtures in diblock copolymers: Multiscale molecular modeling

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5023-5038

  Maly, Marek ^a,b   Posocco, Paola ^c   Pricl, Sabrina ^c   Fermeglia, Maurizio ^c  

^a J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; HYBRID MATERIALS; MIXING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMERS; SEDIMENTATION; SELF ASSEMBLY;

A-PRIORI; DIBLOCK; DIBLOCK CO-POLYMER; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; GEOMETRIC FEATURES; MESOPHASES; MICRO-PHASE; MOLECULAR LEVELS; MOLECULAR MODELLING; MULTI SCALING; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; NANO-METER SCALE; NANOPARTICLE MIXTURES; ORGANIC/INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS; PARTICLE LOCATIONS; PARTICLE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; POLYMERIC MATRICES; SELF- ASSEMBLIES; TAILORED PROPERTIES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 49549102217     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie071311m     Document Type: Article

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