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Effects of Reactivity Ratios on Network Topology and Thermomechanical Properties in Vinyl Ester/Styrene Thermosets: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Author(s) -
Huang Ming,
Abrams Cameron
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
macromolecular theory and simulations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1521-3919
pISSN - 1022-1344
DOI - 10.1002/mats.201970011
Subject(s) - monomer , thermosetting polymer , reactivity (psychology) , styrene , molecular dynamics , polymer chemistry , network topology , materials science , polymer science , molecule , topology (electrical circuits) , chemistry , computational chemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , polymer , computer science , mathematics , copolymer , combinatorics , pathology , medicine , alternative medicine , operating system
Front Cover : We used all‐atom molecular dynamics simulations to build thermoset networks of differing topologies at identical monomer compositions by controlling relative reactivity of double bonds on the two different monomers. These images graphically depict representative network topologies that result from changing the relative reactivities of the two monomer types. This is reported by Ming Huang and Cameron Abrams, in article 1900030.