Multiscale modeling for host-guest chemistry of dendrimers in solution

Polymers

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 463-485

  Kim, Seung Ha ^a   Lamm, Monica H ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrimer simulations Host guest chemistry; Multiscale modeling

Indexed keywords

BINDING AND RELEASE; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; GUEST MOLECULES; GUEST SPECIES; HOSTGUEST CHEMISTRY; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; MULTIPLE SCALE; NANO-STRUCTURED; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; POLYAMIDOAMINE DENDRIMERS; SIMULATION METHODS; SOLVENT EFFECTS; STATISTICAL FIELD THEORY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 84861837044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym4010463     Document Type: Review

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