Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Miscibility in Several Polymer Blends

Details Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Miscibility in Several Polymer Blends Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Miscibility in Several Polymer Blends

2009-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/0905.4674v1

Physics

Chemical Physics

22 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

The miscibility in several polymer blend mixtures (polymethylmethacrylate/polystyrene, (1,4-cis) polyisoprene/polystyrene, and polymethylmethacrylate/polyoxyethylene) has been investigated using Molecular Dynamics simulations for atomistic representations of the polymer chains. The trajectories obtained from simulation boxes representing the mixtures have been analyzed in terms of the collective scattering structure function. The Flory-Huggins parameter is determined from fits of the simulation results for this function to the random phase approximation expression. The numerical values of this parameter and its variation with temperature obtained with this procedure show a general qualitative and quantitative agreement with existing experimental data for the different systems. These results together with those previously obtained for the polyvylmethylether/polystyrene blends with the same method are compared with data yielded by other computational simpler approaches.

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