Oppositely charged polymers can undergo the process of complex coacervation, which
refers to a liquid–liquid phase separation driven by electrostatic attraction. These materials …

Process-directed self-assembly refers to processes that reproducibly trap the kinetics of
structure formation that ensues after a sudden change (“quench”) of the thermodynamic …

The description of fluctuations by single chain in mean field (SCMF) simulations is discussed
and the results of this particle-based self-consistent field technique are quantitatively …

A coarse grain model and a Monte Carlo sampling formalism are proposed for simulations of
self-assembly in block copolymer melts and nanoparticle− copolymer composites. Our …

Mixing polymer melts with nanosized particles that offer a huge interacting surface leads to
novel materials with sometimes exceptional properties, such as mechanically very strong …

Using the complex Langevin sampling strategy, field theoretic simulations are performed to
study the equilibrium phase behavior and structure of symmetric polycation-polyanion …

We review various methods to investigate the statics and the dynamics of collective
composition fluctuations in dense polymer mixtures within fluctuating-field approaches. The …

Polymer mixtures such as blends or block copolymers are of great interest in energy
applications and functional materials, and often, one or more of these species contain …

Recently there has been significant interest in manipulating the self-assembly behavior of
block copolymers to obtain structures that are not observed in the bulk. Here we explore the …

We present several developments that facilitate the efficient field-theoretic simulation of
polymers by complex Langevin sampling. A regularization scheme using finite Gaussian …