Surface effects in the crystallization process of elastic flexible polymers
Soft Condensed Matter
2010-02-11 v1
Abstract
Investigating thermodynamic properties of liquid-solid transitions of flexible homopolymers with elastic bonds by means of multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations, we find crystalline conformations that resemble ground-state structures of Lennard-Jones clusters. This allows us to set up a structural classification scheme for finite-length flexible polymers and their freezing mechanism in analogy to atomic cluster formation. Crystals of polymers with "magic length" turn out to be perfectly icosahedral.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.2118,
title = {Surface effects in the crystallization process of elastic flexible polymers},
author = {Stefan Schnabel and Thomas Vogel and Michael Bachmann and Wolfhard Janke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.2118},
year = {2010}
}