Polypropylene
CURRENT GROUP MEMBERS WORKING ON POLYPROPYLENE
PREVIOUS COWORKERS ON POLYPROPYLENE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
RECENT (1995 to date) PUBLICATIONS ON POLYPROPYLENE
- Rane SS, Mattice WL "Interior segment regrowth configurational bias algorithm for the efficient sampling and fast relaxation of coarse-grained polyethylene and polyoxyethylene melts on a high coordination lattice" J Chem Phys 2005, 122, 234913/1-234913/6
- Mattice WL, Helfer CA, Rane SS, von Meerwall ED, Farmer BF "Some mechanisms for subtle influences of stereochemical composition on the physical properties of macromolecules" J Polym Sci: Part B: Polym Phys 2005, 43, 1271-1282
- Choi P, Mattice WL "Molecular origin of the demixing, prior to crystallization, of atactic polypropylene/isotactic polypropylene blends upon cooling from the melt" J Chem Phys 2004, 121, 8647-8651
- Xu G; Mattice WL "Simulation of the initial development of an inhomogeneous structure upon cooling an elastomeric polypropylene from a homogeneous melt" Polymer 2002, 43, 7007-7015
- Xu G; Clancy TC; Mattice WL; Kumar SK "Increase in the chemical potential of syndiotactic polypropylene upon mixing with atactic or isotactic polypropylene in the melt" Macromolecules 2002, 35, 3309-3311
- Akten ED; Mattice WL; Suter UW "Rotational isomeric state calculations, with an illustrative application to head-to-head, tail-to-tail polypropylene" in Simulation Methods for Modeling Polymers Kotelyanskii M; Theodorou DN, Eds, Marcel Dekker, accepted October 14, 1999.
- Clancy TC; Mattice WL "Role of the attractive portion of the Lennard-Jones potential in the inhomogeneity of isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylene in their melt" J Chem Phys 2001, 115, 8221-8225.
- Akten ED; Mattice WL "Monte Carlo simulation of head-to-head, tail-to-tail polypropylene and its mixing with polyethylene in the melt" Macromolecules 2001, 34, 3389-3395.
- Clancy TC; Putz M; Weinhold JD; Curro JG; Mattice WL "Mixing of isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylenes in the melt" Macromolecules 2000, 33, 9452-9463.
- Clancy TC; Mattice WL "Rotational isomeric state chains on a high coordination lattice: Dynamic Monte Carlo algorithm details J Chem Phys 2000, 112, 10049-10055.
- Haliloglu T; Mattice WL "Simulation of rotational isomeric state models for polypropylene melts on a high coordination lattice" Rev Chem Eng 1999, 15, 293-305.
- Haliloglu T; Mattice WL "Detection of the onset of demixing in simulations of polypropylene melts in which the chains differ only in stereochemical composition" J Chem Phys 1999, 111, 4327-4333.
- Clancy TC; Mattice WL "Computer simulation of polyolefin interfaces" Comput Theor Polym Sci 1999, 9, 261-270.
- Natarajan U; Mattice WL "Atomistic simulation of a polymer-polymer interface: Interfacial energy and work of adhesion" Comput Theor Polym Sci 1998, 8, 323-329.
- Haliloglu T; Cho J; Mattice WL "Simulations of rotational isomeric state models for polypropylene melts on a high coordination lattice" Macromol Theory Simul 1998, 7, 613-617.
- Haliloglu T; Mattice WL "Mapping of rotational isomeric state chains with asymmetric torsional potential energy functions on a high coordination lattice: Application to polypropylene" J Chem Phys 1998, 108, 6989-6995.
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September 7, 2005
Wayne L. Mattice: wlm@polymer.uakron.edu