Effective Soft-Core Potentials and Mesoscopic Simulations of Binary Polymer Mixtures

Details Effective Soft-Core Potentials and Mesoscopic Simulations of Binary Polymer Mixtures Effective Soft-Core Potentials and Mesoscopic Simulations of Binary Polymer Mixtures

2010-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/1004.0277v1

Macromolecules Article (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

19 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables

Scientific paper

10.1021/ma100052z

Mesoscopic molecular dynamics simulations are used to determine the large scale structure of several binary polymer mixtures of various chemical architecture, concentration, and thermodynamic conditions. By implementing an analytical formalism, which is based on the solution to the Ornstein-Zernike equation, each polymer chain is mapped onto the level of a single soft colloid. From the appropriate closure relation, the effective, soft-core potential between coarse-grained units is obtained and used as input to our mesoscale simulations. The potential derived in this manner is analytical and explicitly parameter dependent, making it general and transferable to numerous systems of interest. From computer simulations performed under various thermodynamic conditions the structure of the polymer mixture, through pair correlation functions, is determined over the entire miscible region of the phase diagram. In the athermal regime mesoscale simulations exhibit quantitative agreement with united atom simulations. Furthermore, they also provide information at larger scales than can be attained by united atom simulations and in the thermal regime approaching the phase transition.

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