Sizes and shapes of simulated amorphous cis- and trans-1,4-polybutadiene

Polymer

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 129-138

  Kar, Suvrajyoti ^a   Greenfield, Michael L ^a  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain conformation; Radius of gyration distribution; Rotational Isomeric State

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CHAIN CONFORMATIONS; CHARACTERISTIC RATIO; END-TO-END DISTANCES; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RADIUS OF GYRATION; RANDOM CONFORMATIONS; ROTATIONAL ISOMERIC STATE;

CHAINS;

EID: 84924771717     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.01.065     Document Type: Article

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