Modeling entangled dynamics: Comparison between stochastic single-chain and multichain models

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4300-4309

  Sukumaran, Sathish K ^a   Likhtman, Alexei E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN MODELS; ENTANGLED POLYMERS; GENERALIZED LANGEVIN EQUATION; MEAN-SQUARE; MEAN-SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; PARAMETER VALUES; REPULSIVE POTENTIALS; SPRING MODEL; STATIC STRUCTURES; STOCHASTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TIME-DEPENDENT STRESS RELAXATION;

CHAIN LENGTH; DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS; POLYMER FILMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 67649223428     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma802059p     Document Type: Article

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