Conformational effects in non-stoichiometric complexes of two hyperbranched molecules with a linear polyelectrolyte

Polymers

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 240-255

  Dalakoglou, George ^a   Karatasos, Kostas ^a   Lyulin, Sergey ^b   Larin, Sergey ^b   Darinskii, Anatoly ^b   Lyulin, Alexey ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complexes; Computer simulations; Hyperbranched

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SIZE; BRANCHED MOLECULES; BROWNIAN DYNAMICS; COMPLEXES; CONFORMATIONAL EFFECT; COULOMBIC INTERACTIONS; HIGHLY BRANCHED POLYMERS; HYPERBRANCHED; LINEAR CHAIN; LINEAR COMPONENTS; LINEAR POLYELECTROLYTES; MULTIFUNCTIONALITY; TWO-COMPONENT;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DENDRIMERS; MOLECULES;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 84861761466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym4010240     Document Type: Article

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