Microscopic theory of entangled polymer melt dynamics: Flexible chains as primitive-path random walks and supercoarse grained needles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Sussman, Daniel M ^a,c   Schweizer, Kenneth S ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHARMONIC; BINARY COLLISIONS; COARSE GRAINING; CONFINEMENT POTENTIAL; DYNAMICAL THEORY; ENTANGLED POLYMERS; FLEXIBLE CHAINS; FLEXIBLE POLYMER CHAINS; MICROSCOPIC THEORY; PRIMITIVE PATH; RANDOM WALK; RIGID RODS; TRANSVERSE CONFINEMENT;

NEEDLES; POLYMER MELTS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84867750014     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.168306     Document Type: Article

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