Cavitation and crazing in rod-containing nanocomposites

Macromolecules

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5498-5509

  Toepperwein, Gregory N ^a   De Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; DEFORMATION RATES; LOCAL DENSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; PURE POLYMERS; VOID FORMATION; VORONOI VOLUME;

ELASTIC MODULI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORODS; POLYMERS;

CRAZING;

EID: 79960018148     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma200541s     Document Type: Article

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