Frozen topology: Entanglements control nucleation and crystallization in polymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2014, Pages

  Luo, Chuanfu ^a   Sommer, Jens Uwe ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; POLYMER MELTS; TOPOLOGY;

ENTANGLEMENT STATE; EXTERNAL CONDITIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES; POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION; POLYMER CRYSTALS; PRIMITIVE PATH ANALYSIS; SLOW RELAXATIONS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84900992790     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.195702     Document Type: Article

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