Computer simulation studies of chain dynamics in polymer brushes

Macromolecules

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4381-4393

  Reith, Daniel ^a   Milchev, Andrey ^b   Virnau, Peter ^a   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTER-OF-MASS; CHAIN DYNAMICS; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; END-TO-END DISTANCES; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; GRAFTED CHAINS; GRAFTING SITES; GYRATION RADII; LARGE-SCALE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MEAN DISTANCES; MEAN SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; POLYMER BRUSHES; RING POLYMERS; ROUSE DYNAMICS; SINGLE MONOMERS; SOLVENT CONDITIONS; STRETCHED POLYMERS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS;

BRUSHES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84861362276     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma202745b     Document Type: Article

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