Modifying fragility and collective motion in polymer melts with nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Starr, Francis W ^a   Douglas, Jack F ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM-GIBBS THEORY; AVERAGE LENGTH; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; COOPERATIVELY REARRANGING REGIONS; COOPERATIVITY; MODEL GLASS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR MOTIONS; POLYMER INTERACTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 79952726713     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.115702     Document Type: Article

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