Coarse-graining polymers as soft colloids
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We show how to coarse grain polymers in a good solvent as single particles, interacting with density-independent or density-dependent interactions. These interactions can be between the centres of mass, the mid-points or end-points of the polymers. We also show how to extend these methods to polymers in poor solvents and mixtures of polymers. Treating polymers as soft colloids can greatly speed up the simulation of complex many-polymer systems, including polymer-colloid mixtures.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0112091,
title = {Coarse-graining polymers as soft colloids},
author = {A. A. Louis and P. G. Bolhuis and R. Finken and V. Krakoviack and E. J. Meijer and J. P. Hansen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0112091},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
to appear in Physica A, special STATPHYS 2001 edition. Content of invited talk by AAL