Molecular dynamics simulation of a single polymer in hydrophilic nano-slits

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2599-2606

  Ren, Ying ^a,b   Gao, Jian ^a   Ge, Wei ^a   Li, JingHai ^a   Hu, GuoHua ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Confined; Molecular dynamics simulation; Polymer

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849088025     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0371-9     Document Type: Article

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