Topological analysis of polymeric melts: Chain-length effects and fast-converging estimators for entanglement length

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Hoy, Robert S ^a   Foteinopoulou, Katerina ^b   Kröger, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN-ENDS; ENTANGLED SYSTEM; NON-GAUSSIAN; POLYMER MODELS; POLYMERIC MELTS; PREFACTORS; PRIMITIVE PATH; PRIMITIVE PATH ANALYSIS; SINGLE CHAINS; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

CHAIN LENGTH; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; NEON; POLYMER MELTS; POLYMERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EID: 70349974721     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031803     Document Type: Article

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