Molecular dynamics and dissipative particle dynamics simulations for prediction of miscibility in polyethylene terephthalate/polylactide blends

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 415-422

  Fu, Yizheng ^a   Liao, Liqiong ^a   Yang, Luxia ^b   Lan, Yanhua ^c   Mei, Linyu ^a   Liu, Yaqing ^a   Hu, Shuangqi ^a  

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

blend; miscibility; molecular simulation; PET; PLA

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; BLEND; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; PLA; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLORY-HUGGINS PARAMETER;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLUBILITY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; BLENDING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTIC BOTTLES;

EID: 84876015336     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2012.738294     Document Type: Article

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