A multiscale modeling protocol to generate realistic polymer surfaces

Macromolecules

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1053-1061

  Handgraaf, Jan Willem ^a   Serral Gracia, Ruben ^a   Nath, Shyamal K ^b   Chen, Zhong ^c   Chou, Shih Hung ^c   Ross, Richard B ^c   Schultz, Nate E ^c   Fraaije, Johannes G E M ^a,d  

^a Culgi BV   (Netherlands)

^b Culgi Inc   (United States)

^c 3M COMPANY   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; ATOMISTIC STRUCTURE; COARSE-GRAINED; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; MESOSCOPIC SIMULATION METHOD; MESOSCOPIC STRUCTURE; MESOSCOPICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; POLYMER SURFACES; SIMULATION METHODS; SLOW EQUILIBRATION; TEST CASE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THERMOPLASTICS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 79951599669     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma1022567     Document Type: Article

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