This review concerns modeling studies of the fundamental problem of entangled (reptational) homopolymer diffusion in melts and nanocomposite materials in comparison to …
TCB McLeish - Advances in physics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The dynamics of entangled flexible polymers is dominated by physics general to many chemical systems. It is an appealing interdisciplinary field where experimental and …
JT Padding, WJ Briels - The Journal of chemical physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We present coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of linear polyethylene (PE) melts, ranging in chain length from C 80 to C 1000. The employed effective potentials …
Results are presented from 300 ns long atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of polyethylene (PE) melts, ranging in molecular length from C78 to C250. Above C156, the …
W Paul, GD Smith - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
This contribution considers recent developments in the computer modelling of amorphous polymeric materials. Progress in our capabilities to build models for the computer simulation …
A microscopic theory for cation diffusion in polymer electrolytes is presented. Based on a thorough analysis of molecular dynamics simulations on poly (ethylene) oxide with LiBF 4 …
G Marrucci, G Ianniruberto - Macromolecules, 2004 - ACS Publications
Recent data by Hassager and co-workers [Bach et al. Macromolecules 2003, 36, 5174] of elongational viscosity of nearly monodisperse polystyrene melts are interpreted by including …
M Müller, GD Smith - Journal of Polymer Science Part B …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss a phenomenological, coarse‐grained simulation scheme, single‐chain‐in‐ mean‐field (SCMF) simulation, for investigating the kinetics of phase separation in dense …
JP Wittmer, P Beckrich, H Meyer, A Cavallo… - Physical Review E …, 2007 - APS
We present theoretical arguments and numerical results to demonstrate long-range intrachain correlations in concentrated solutions and melts of long flexible polymers, which …