Mixing atoms and coarse-grained beads in modelling polymer melts

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 137, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Di Pasquale, Nicodemo ^a,b   Marchisio, Daniele ^a   Carbone, Paola ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN INVERSION; COARSE-GRAINED; COARSE-GRAINED POTENTIAL; GLOBAL STRUCTURE; MIXED MODELS; MIXED POTENTIAL; SIMPLE HYBRID MODEL; SINGLE MOLECULE;

MOLECULES; POLYSTYRENES;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 84868350493     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4759504     Document Type: Article

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