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The structure of flexible polymers endgrafted in cylindrical pores of diameter D is studied as a function of chain length N and grafting density \sigma, assuming good solvent conditions. A phenomenological scaling theory, describing the…

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We explore the elastic behavior of a wormlike chain under compression in terms of exact solutions for the associated probability densities. Strikingly, the probability density for the end-to-end distance projected along the applied force…

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We use a standard bead-spring model and molecular dynamics simulations to study the static properties of symmetric linear multiblock copolymer chains and their blocks under poor solvent conditions in a dilute solution from the regime close…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-05 Panagiotis E. Theodorakis , Nikolaos G. Fytas

We present an application of Flory-type self-consistent field theory of the flexible polymer chain dissolved in the binary mixture of solvents to theoretical description of co-nonsolvency. We show that our theoretical predictions are in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-10 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov

The dynamics of structural relaxation in a model polymer glass subject to spatially-homogeneous, time-periodic shear deformation is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. We study a coarse-grained bead-spring model of short…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-10 Nikolai V. Priezjev

In the present study we are performing simulation of simple model of two patch colloidal particles undergoing irreversible diffusion limited cluster aggregation using patchy Brownian cluster dynamics. In addition to the irreversible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-26 Isha Malhotra , Sujin B. Babu

A density functional study of the structure of a layer formed by chain molecules pinned to a solid surface is presented. The chains are modeled as freely joined spheres. Segments and all components interact via Lennard-Jones (12-6)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-16 M. Borówko , T. Staszewski

We use Brownian dynamics simulations and theory to study the over-damped spatiotemporal dynamics and pattern formation in a fluid-permeated array of equally spaced, active, elastic filaments that are pinned at one end and free at the other.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-31 Sonu Karayat , Prashant K. Purohit , L. Mahadevan , Arvind Gopinath , Raghunath Chelakkot

We study the elastic properties of a single A/B copolymer chain with a specific sequence. We predict a rich structure in the force extension relations which can be addressed to the sequence. The variational method is introduced to probe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Namkyung Lee , Thomas A. Vilgis

The elasticity of disordered and polydisperse polymer networks is a fundamental problem of soft matter physics that is still open. Here, we self-assemble polymer networks via simulations of a mixture of bivalent and tri- or tetravalent…

We present a novel simulation technique derived from Brownian cluster dynamics used so far to study the isotropic colloidal aggregation. It now implements the classical Kern-Frenkel potential to describe patchy interactions between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Achutha Prabhu , Sujin B. Babu , Jorge S. Dolado , J. -C. Gimel

The shape of biological shells, such as cell nuclei, membranes, and vesicles, often deviates from a perfect sphere due to an interplay of complex interactions with a myriad of molecular structures. In particular, semiflexible biopolymers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-05 Hadiya Abdul Hameed , Jaroslaw Paturej , Aykut Erbas

We investigate the segregation pattern formations of strongly and weakly fluctuated Brownian particle mixtures, which are confined in spherical containers with finite volumes. We consider systems where the container restricts the motions of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Akinori Awazu

The problem of a spatially correlated noise affecting a complex system is studied in this paper. We present a comprehensive analysis of a 2D model polymer chain, driven by the spatially correlated Gaussian noise, for which we have varied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Majka , P. F. Góra

Stable colloidal dispersions with evenly distributed particles are important for many technological applications. Due to Brownian motion colloidal particles have constant collisions with each other which often lead to their aggregation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-19 Alexey A. Shvets

Non equilibrium coarse grained, dissipative particle dynamics simulations of complex fluids, made up of polymer brushes tethered to planar surfaces immersed in a solvent yield non monotonic behavior of the friction coefficient as a function…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-01 E. Mayoral , J. Klapp , A. Gama Goicochea

We use a continuous mesoscopic model to address the yielding properties of plastic composites, formed by a host material and inclusions with different elastic and/or plastic properties. We investigate the flow properties of the composed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 E. A. Jagla

Strongly confined colloidal dispersions under shear can exhibit a variety of dynamical phenomena, including depinning transitions and complex structural changes. Here, we investigate the behaviour of such systems under pure oscillatory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-25 Marcel Hülsberg , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We investigate polyelectrolyte brushes in the osmotic regime using both theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics simulation techniques. In the simulations at moderate Bjerrum length, we observe that the brush height varies weakly with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Naji , Roland R. Netz , Christian Seidel

We study the behavior of a flexible polymer chain in the presence of a low-molecular weight solvent in the vicinity of a liquid-gas critical point within the framework of a self-consistent field theory. The total free energy of the dilute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-29 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , N. Georgi , M. G. Kiselev