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A semi-grand-canonical Monte Carlo algorithm is employed in conjunction with the bond fluctuation model to investigate the critical properties of an asymmetric binary (AB) polymer mixture. By applying the equal peak-weight criterion to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Mueller , N. B. Wilding

Using extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the surface adsorption of self-avoiding trails on the triangular lattice with two- and three-body on-site monomer-monomer interactions. In the parameter space of two-body, three-body,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-01 Nathann T. Rodrigues , Tiago J. Oliveira , Thomas Prellberg , Aleksander L. Owczarek

We investigate the dynamics of a phase-separating binary fluid, containing colloidal dumbbells anchored to the fluid-fluid interface. Extensive Lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary method simulations reveal that the presence of soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 A. Tiribocchi , F. Bonaccorso , M. Lauricella , S. Melchionna , A. Montessori , S. Succi

Many soft-matter and biophysical systems are composed of monomers which reversibly assemble into rod-like aggregates. The aggregates can then order into liquid-crystal phases if the density is high enough, and liquid-crystal ordering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-27 Tatiana Kuriabova , M. D. Betterton , Matthew A. Glaser

We present results of a series of Monte Carlo simulations investigating the imprint of a central intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) on the structure of a globular cluster. We investigate the three-dimensional and projected density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-12 Stefan Umbreit , John M. Fregeau , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio

We present a numerical algorithm to evaluate the self-consistent field theory for melts composed of block copolymers with multiply-branched architecture. We present results for the case of branched copolymers with doubly-functional groups…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory M. Grason , Randall D. Kamien

In this article we study the effect of a delta-interaction on a polymerized membrane of arbitrary internal dimension D. Depending on the dimensionality of membrane and embedding space, different physical scenarios are observed. We emphasize…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Henryk A. Pinnow , Kay Joerg Wiese

In this paper we consider thin films of AB block copolymer melts confined between two parallel plates. The plates are identical and may have a preference for one of the monomer types over the other. The system is characterized by four…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Hindrik Jan Angerman , Albert Johner , Alexander N. Semenov

In this work we investigated the phase behavior of melts of block-copolymers with one charged block by means of dissipative particle dynamics with explicit electrostatic interactions. We assumed that all the Flory-Huggins \c{hi} parameters…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-12 Alexey A. Gavrilov , Alexander V. Chertovich , Igor I. Potemkin

The structure and the statistical fluctuations of interfaces between coexisting phases in the Asakura-Oosawa (AO) model for a colloid--polymer mixture are analyzed by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. We make use of a recently developed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. C. Vink , J. Horbach , K. Binder

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are used to study the dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanopore in the limit where the translocation rate is sufficiently slow that the polymer maintains a state of conformational quasi-equilibrium.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 James M. Polson , Anthony C. M. McCaffrey

Using fast off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations with experimentally accessible fluctuations, we report the first systematic study unambiguously quantifying the shift of the order-disorder transition (ODT) $\chi^*$ of symmetric diblock…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-24 Jing Zong , Qiang Wang

We present a model of an AB-diblock random copolymer sequential self-packaging with local quenched interactions on a one-dimensional infinite sticky substrate. It is assumed that the A-A and B-B contacts are favorable, while A-B are not.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-16 L. I. Nazarov , S. K. Nechaev , M. V. Tamm

Using molecular dynamics simulation of a standard bead-spring model we investigate the density crossover scaling of strictly two-dimensional self-avoiding polymer chains focusing on properties related to the contact exponent set by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 N. Schulmann , H. Meyer , J. P. Wittmer , A. Johner , J. Baschnagel

We present computer simulations of a dynamic Monte Carlo algorithm for polymer chains on the FCC lattice which takes explicitly into account the possibility to overcome topological constraints by controlling the rate at which nearby polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-01 Mattia Alberto Ubertini , Angelo Rosa

The results obtained from molecular dynamics simulations of the friction at an interface between polymer melts and weakly attractive crystalline surfaces are reported. We consider a coarse-grained bead-spring model of linear chains with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-12 Nikolai V. Priezjev

Brownian Dynamics simulations are carried out to understand the effect of temperature and dielectric constant of the medium on microphase separation of charged-neutral diblock copolymer systems. For different dielectric media, we focus on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-20 Monojoy Goswami , Rajeev Kumar , Bobby G. Sumpter , Jimmy Mays

Diffusion of ions through a fluctuating polymeric host is studied both by Monte Carlo simulation of the complete system dynamics and by dynamic bond percolation (DBP) theory. Comparison of both methods suggests a multiscale-like approach…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Durr , W. Dieterich , A. Nitzan

We investigate the mechanism of chain exchange in diblock copolymer micelles using two distinct yet complementary simulation techniques. First, enhanced sampling method is combined with coarse-grained molecular dynamics to compute a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Samuel Varner , Marcus Müller , Alejandro Gallegos , Timothy P. Lodge , Kevin D. Dorfman , Zhen-Gang Wang

Diffusion properties of a self-avoiding polymer embedded in regularly distributed obstacles with spacing a=20 and confined in two dimensions is studied numerically using the extended bond fluctuation method which we have developed recently.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryuzo Azuma , Hajime Takayama