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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2020

A Refractive Index Study of a Diverse Set of Polymeric Materials by QSPR with Quantum-Chemical and Additive Descriptors.

Meade E Erickson, Marvellous Ngongang, Bakhtiyor Rasulev

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Meade E EricksonDepartment of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA.
Marvellous NgongangDepartment of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA.
Bakhtiyor RasulevDepartment of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7845-4884

Funding

National Science Foundation IIA-1355466
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predicting the activities and properties of materials via in silico methods has been shown to be a cost- and time-effective way of aiding chemists in synthesizing materials with desired properties. Refractive index (n) is one of the most important defining characteristics of an optical material. Presented in this work is a quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) model that was developed to predict the refractive index for a diverse set of polymers. A number of models were created, where a four-variable model showed the best predictive performance with R

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Models, ChemicalQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipQuantum TheoryMolecular StructurePolymersRefractometryPolymersdescriptorsionization potentialpolarizabilitypolymersQSARQSPRrefractive index

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PMID32825028
PMCPMC7503810

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