Coarse-Grained Simulations of Flow-Induced Nucleation in Semicrystalline Polymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Graham, Richard S ^a   Olmsted, Peter D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; FLOW-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; INDUCED NUCLEATION; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUCLEATION RATE; PROCESS MODELING; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; TUBE MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; POLYMERS;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 70249098812     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.115702     Document Type: Article

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