Rational design of all organic polymer dielectrics

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sharma, Vinit ^a   Wang, Chenchen ^a   Lorenzini, Robert G ^a   Ma, Rui ^a   Zhu, Qiang ^b   Sinkovits, Daniel W ^c   Pilania, Ghanshyam ^d   Oganov, Artem R ^b,e,f   Kumar, Sanat ^c   Sotzing, Gregory A ^a   Boggs, Steven A ^a   Ramprasad, Rampi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Chemistry Institute of Materials Science University of Connecticut ^*  (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PARADIGM SHIFT; POLYMER; PREDICTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SYNTHESIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84908046909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5845     Document Type: Article

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