Theory and simulation studies of effective interactions, phase behavior and morphology in polymer nanocomposites

Soft Matter

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-38

  Ganesan, Venkat ^a   Jayaraman, Arthi ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED NANOPARTICLES; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; SIMULATION STUDIES;

MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER MATRIX;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84889589689     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm51864g     Document Type: Review

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