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Polymer systems in slab geometries are studied on the basis of the recently presented Gaussian Ellipsoid Model [J. Chem. Phys. 114, 7655 (2001)].The potential of the confining walls has an exponential shape. For homogeneous systems in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Eurich , P. Maass , J. Baschnagel

We consider the model of complex hyperbranched polymer structures formed on the basis of scale-free graphs, where functionalities (degrees) $k$ of nodes obey a power law decaying probability $p(k)\sim{k^{-\alpha}}$. Such polymer topologies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-16 V. Blavatska , Yu. Holovatch

Molecular Dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained bead-spring model of flexible macromolecules tethered with one end to the surface of a cylindrical pore are presented. Chain length $N$ and grafting density $\sigma$ are varied over a wide…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Andrey Milchev , Kurt Binder , Dieter W. Heermann

We report a simulation study for bottle-brush polymers grafted on a rigid backbone. Using a standard coarse-grained bead-spring model extensive molecular dynamics simulations for such macromolecules under good solvent conditions are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Hamed Maleki , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

We study the thermodynamic behavior of branched polymers. We first study random walks in order to clarify the thermodynamic relation between the canonical ensemble and the grand canonical ensemble. We then show that correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hajime Aoki , Satoshi Iso , Hikaru Kawai , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We study the relaxation dynamics of a coarse-grained polymer chain at different degrees of stretching by both analytical means and numerical simulations. The macromolecule is modelled as a string of beads, connected by anharmonic springs,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Febbo , A. Milchev , V. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis , D. Dimitrov

The statistical mechanics of a linear non-interacting polymer chain with a large number of monomers is considered with fixed angular momentum. The radius of gyration for a linear polymer is derived exactly by functional integration. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Matthew Brunner , J. M. Deutsch

Monte Carlo simulations of coarse-grained polymers provide a useful tool to deepen the understanding of conformational and statistical properties of polymers both in physical as well as in biological systems. In this study we sample compact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-07 Manfred Bohn , Dieter W. Heermann

The paper presents a short overview of the theoretical, numerical and experimental works on the critical behavior of a dilute polymer solution of long-flexible polymer chains confined in semi-infinite space restricted by a surface or in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-08 Zoryana Usatenko , Krzysztof S. Danel

Due to the complex characteristics of bottle-brush polymers, it became a challenge to develop an efficient algorithm for studying such macromolecules under various solvent conditions or some constraints in the space by using computer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-08 Hsiao-Ping Hsu

Assuming Gaussian chain statistics along the chain contour, we generate by means of a proper fractal generator hyperbranched polymer trees which are marginally compact. Static and dynamical properties, such as the radial intrachain pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-01 M. Dolgushev , J. P. Wittmer , A. Johner , O. Benzerara , H. Meyer , J. Baschnagel

The conformational behavior of a coarse-grained finite polymer chain near an attractive spherical surface was investigated by means of multicanonical Monte Carlo computer simulations. In a detailed analysis of canonical equilibrium data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-03 Handan Arkin , Wolfhard Janke

We present a braided circuit topology framework for investigating topology and structural phase transitions in aggregates of semiflexible polymers. In the conventional approach to circuit topology, which specifically applies to single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Jonas Berx , Alireza Mashaghi

In this paper we continue our recent analysis [K. Haydukivska et al., J. Mol. Liq., 2021, 328, 115456] of complex molecules with two branching points at both ends of the linear backbone with $f_1$ and $f_2$ side arms starting from them,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-14 Khristine Haydukivska , Ostap Kalyuzhnyi , Viktoria Blavatska , Jaroslav Ilnytskyi

We show that correlation functions for branched polymers correspond to those for $\phi^3$ theory with a single mass insertion, not those for the $\phi^3$ theory themselves, as has been widely believed. In particular, the two-point function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hajime Aoki , Satoshi Iso , Hikaru Kawai , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We investigate by means of a number of different dynamical Monte Carlo simulation methods the self-assembly of equilibrium polymers in dilute, semidilute and concentrated solutions under good-solvent conditions. In our simulations, both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Wittmer , P. van der Schoot , A. Milchev , J. -L. Barrat

In the paper we investigate statistical and topological properties of fractional Brownian polymer chains, equipped with the short-range volume interactions. The attention is paid to statistical properties of collapsed conformations with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 A. M. Astakhov , V. A. Avetisov , S. K. Nechaev , K. E. Polovnikov

We have generalized the Edwards' method of collective description of dense polymer systems in terms of effective potentials to polymer blends in the presence of a surface. With this method we have studied conformationally asymmetric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Semjon Stepanow , Andrei A. Fedorenko

We analyze the universal size characteristics of flexible ring polymers in solutions in presence of structural obstacles (impurities) in d dimensions. One encounters such situations when considering polymers in gels, colloidal solutions,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-08 K. Haydukivska , V. Blavatska