Quantitative Lattice Simulations of the Dense Amorphous Phase in Semicrystalline Polymers : Size and Energy Effects in 2-D Lattices

Details Quantitative Lattice Simulations of the Dense Amorphous Phase in Semicrystalline Polymers : Size and Energy Effects in 2-D Lattices Quantitative Lattice Simulations of the Dense Amorphous Phase in Semicrystalline Polymers : Size and Energy Effects in 2-D Lattices

2008-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/0805.0382v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

19 pages

Scientific paper

In this work we illustrate our novel quantitative simulation approach for dense amorphous polymer systems, as discussed in our previous work[Kulkarni et al., A Novel Approach for Lattice Simulations of Polymer Chains in Dense Amorphous Polymer Systems: Method Development and Validation with 2-D Lattices, arXiV, 2008] in applications involving large lattice sizes and high energetic bias. We first demonstrate how the topology of the microstate ensemble in 2-D lattices presents a serious challenge for the collection of accurate and reliable quantitative results (i.e., with simultaneous determination of error bars) for large lattices. This necessitates a further enhancement of our Monte Carlo simulation scheme to sample effectively a meaningful 2-D lattice configurational subspace. Two techniques were investigated: simulated annealing and parallel tempering, to avoid trapping near a local free energy minimum in simulations at high energetic bias. Extensive results of the prediction of various chain conformation statistics and thermodynamic quantities, in the thermodynamic limit (i.e. infinite lateral sizes) are presented.

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