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Applications of Simulated Annealing Technique

Relevant Publications

  1. Fogel, A. L.; Ravichandran, A.; Mani, S.; Upadhyay, B.; Khare, R.; Morgan, S. E.; “Water structure and mobility in acrylamide copolymer glycohydrogels with galactose and siloxane pendant groups”, J. Polym. Sci. B Polym. Phys., 57, 584-597 (2019).
  2. Mani, S.; Khare, R.; “Effect of chain flexibility and interlayer interactions on the dynamics of layered polymer systems”, Macromolecules, 51, 576-588 (2018).
  3. Godbole, R.; Khabaz, F.; Khare, R.; Hedden, R. C.; “Swelling of random copolymer networks in pure and mixed solvents: Multi-component Flory-Rehner theory”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 121, 7963−7977 (2017).
  4. Khabaz, F.; Mani, S.; Khare, R.; “Molecular origins of dynamic coupling between water and hydrated polyacrylate gels”, Macromolecules, 49, 7551-7562 (2016)
  5. Mani, S.; Khabaz, F.; Godbole, R. V.; Hedden, R. C.; Khare, R.; “Structure and hydrogen bonding of water in polyacrylate gels: Effects of polymer hydrophilicity and water concentration” J. Phys. Chem. B, 119 (49), 15381-15393 (2015).
  6. Khabaz, F.; Khare, R.; “Glass transition and molecular mobility in styrene-butadiene rubber modified asphalt”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 119 (44), 14261-14269, (2015).
  7. Soni, N.; Lin, P.-H.; Khare, R.; “Effect of cross-linker length on the thermal and volumetric properties of cross-linked epoxy networks: A molecular simulation study”, Polymer, 53, 1015-1019 (2012).
  8. Lin, P.-H.; Khare, R.; “Glass transition and structural properties of glycidyloxypropyl-heptaphenyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane-epoxy nanocomposites: A molecular simulation study”, J. Therm. Anal. Calorim., 102, 461-467 (2010).
  9. Lin, P.-H.; Khare, R.; “Local chain dynamics and dynamic heterogeneity in cross-linked epoxy in the vicinity of glass transition”, Macromolecules, 43, 6505-6510 (2010).
  10. Lin, P.-H.; Khare, R.; “Molecular simulation of cross-linked epoxy and epoxy-POSS nanocomposite”, Macromolecules, 42, 4319-4327 (2009).

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