Chain bridging in a model of semicrystalline multiblock copolymers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Shah, Manas ^a   Ganesan, Venkat ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; POLYMERS; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

CHAIN CONFORMATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; GAUSSIAN CHAINS; MULTIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; PENTABLOCK COPOLYMERS; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD THEORIES; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE; SEMI-FLEXIBLE CHAINS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENTS; THEORETICAL STUDIES; TRIBLOCK;

PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

EID: 59949096869     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3072339     Document Type: Article

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