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Monte Carlo simulation in polymer physics: Some recent developments
Kurt Bindersubject
Materials sciencePolymers and PlasticsOrders of magnitude (time)Organic ChemistryMonte Carlo methodMaterials ChemistryMesophasePolymer physicsStatistical physicsCondensed Matter Physicsdescription
The computer simulation of macromolecular materials has to deal with phenomena on length scales from 1A to 100A, as well as with time scales ranging over many orders of magnitude, and thus still presents a challenge. With suitably coarse-grained models which disregard detailed information on chemical structure nevertheless collective phenomena can be described, such as unmixing of polymer blends, mesophase ordering of block-copolymer melts, “blob formation” in semidilute solutions, etc. Simulations of such models provide a sensitive test of approximate theories and give valuable hints for experiments.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-10-01 | Makromolekulare Chemie. Macromolecular Symposia |