Onset of entanglements revisited. Topological analysis

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7474-7484

  Tzoumanekas, C ^a,b   Lahmar, F ^c   Rousseau, B ^c   Theodorou, D N ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; CONTOUR LENGTH FLUCTUATIONS; CROSSOVER LENGTH; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC ASPECTS; LENGTH SCALE; LONG CHAINS; MONODISPERSE SYSTEMS; PRIMITIVE PATH; RANDOM WALK; RATE OF INCREASE; REPTATION; SCALING MODEL; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; THIN RODS; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

CHAIN LENGTH; ELECTRIC LOAD SHEDDING; TOPOLOGY;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 70349897834     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901131c     Document Type: Article

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