A complete multiscale modelling approach for polymer-clay nanocomposites

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 31, 2009, Pages 7586-7592

  Scocchi, Giulio ^a,c   Posocco, Paola ^a   Handgraaf, Jan Willem ^b   Fraaije, Johannes G E M ^b,d   Fermeglia, Maurizio ^a   Pricl, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Culgi BV   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bead field hybrid simulation; Materials science; Molecular modeling; Nanostructures; Organic inorganic hybrid composites

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; BEAD-FIELD HYBRID SIMULATION; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; CLOISITE; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE-ELEMENT; INTERACTION ENERGIES; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MESOSCOPIC; MESOSCOPIC SIMULATION; MULTISCALE; MULTISCALE MODELLING APPROACH; NYLON-6; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID COMPOSITES; POLYMER-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TEST MATERIALS;

CLAY MINERALS; FORCE CONTROL; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR MODELING; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYAMIDES; RAYON; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 67949090986     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900995     Document Type: Article

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