The recent development of a microscopic theory of the equilibrium properties of polymer solutions, melts and alloys based on off-lattice Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model …
KS Schweizer, JG Curro - Advances in Chemical Physics, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Condensed polymeric fluids exhibit a rich and complex set of experimental phenomena associated with the combined influences of local, systemspecific monomer structure and …
KS Schweizer - The Journal of chemical physics, 1989 - pubs.aip.org
A formally exact, nonlinear generalized Langevin equation (GLE) for a flexible probe polymer in a dense melt has been derived using molecular phase space kinetic theory and …
The recently introduced end-bridging (EB) Monte Carlo move is revisited, and a thorough analysis of its geometric formulation and numerical implementation is given. Detailed results …
WG Madden, ED Glandt - Journal of statistical physics, 1988 - Springer
A random medium is considered, composed of identifiable interactive sites or obstacles equilibrated at a high temperature and then quenched rapidly to form a rigid structure …
K Binder - Theories and mechanism of phase transitions …, 2005 - Springer
The classical concepts about unmixing of polymer blends (Flory-Huggins theory) and about mesophase ordering in block copolymers (Leibler's theory) are briefly reviewed and their …
In this chapter we review recent advances which have been achieved in the theoretical description and understanding of polyelectrolyte solutions. We will discuss an improved …
Describes a consistent set of relations between the structure of polymers and their commercially important thermal and mechanical properties for engineering applications …
Polymer RISM (reference interaction site model) theory is used to examine the intermolec- ular radial distribution function and isothermal compressibility of semiflexible polymer melts …