Polymer-grafted nanoparticles in polymer melts: Modeling using the combined scft-dft approach

Macromolecules

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9798-9805

  Ginzburg, Valeriy V ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; GRAFTING DENSITIES; NANO-PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; NANOCOMPOSITE MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLE LOADINGS; POLYMER MATERIALS; POLYMER-GRAFTED NANOPARTICLES; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY;

BLENDING; CHAINS; DISPERSIONS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMER MELTS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

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EID: 84897710660     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma402210v     Document Type: Article

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