On the evolution of entanglements in initially unentangled polymer melts

International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-77

  Subramanian, Gopinath ^a   Shanbhag, Sachin ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annealing; Bond fluctuation model; Polymer melts

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

BOND FLUCTUATION MODEL; POLYMER CHAINS; REPTATION; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 67649886508     PISSN: 15431649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/intjmultcompeng.v7.i1.70     Document Type: Article

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