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cond-mat.soft2015★ 57 cited

Chain Ends and the Ultimate Strength of Polyethylene Fibers

Thomas C. O'Connor, Mark O. Robbins

We use large scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to determine the tensile yield mechanism of orthorhombic polyethylene (PE) crystals with finite chains spanning c…