Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Homogeneous Crystal Nucleation in Polyethylene

Using a realistic united-atom force field, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to study homogeneous nucleation of the crystal phase at about 30% supercooling from the melts of n-pentacontahectane (C150) and a linear polyethylene (C1000), both of which are long enough to exhibit the chain f...

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Main Authors: Yi, Peng, Locker, C. Rebecca, Rutledge, Gregory C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92420
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-1732