Conformational properties of polymer mushrooms under spherical and cylindrical confinement

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 258-268

  Wang, Rong ^a,b   Virnau, Peter ^a   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Confined macromolecules; Endgrafted chains; Excluded volume interaction; Monte Carlo simulation; Scaling; Surface

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINED MODELS; CONFINED MACROMOLECULES; CONFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES; CYLINDER AXIS; EXCLUDED-VOLUME INTERACTIONS; GYRATION RADII; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PLANAR SURFACE; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SCALING; SEMIDILUTE; SOLVENT CONDITIONS; TWO-REGIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MACROMOLECULES; SPHERES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77955464739     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: 15213919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mats.200900085     Document Type: Article

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