Probe molecules in polymer melts near the glass transition: A molecular dynamics study of chain length effects

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Valle R A L ^a   Paul, W ^b   Binder, K ^c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CAGE EFFECT; CENTER OF MASS; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DENSE MELT; FLUORESCENT PROBE MOLECULES; FUNCTION OF TIME; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; INCOHERENT SCATTERING FUNCTIONS; LINEAR DICHROISM; MATRIX; MEAN-SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; MODE COUPLING; MODE COUPLING THEORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POLYMER CHAINS; PROBE MOLECULES; STOKES-EINSTEIN RELATION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; VOGEL-FULCHER;

AUTOCORRELATION; CHAIN LENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DICHROISM; DYNAMICS; GLASS; INCOHERENT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLYMER MELTS; PROBES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 78651445929     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3284780     Document Type: Article

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