Phase Behavior of Polymer-Containing Systems: Recent Advances Through Computer Simulation

✍ Scribed by Kurt Binder; M. Müller; R. L. C. Vink

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 596 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1344
• DOI: 10.1002/mats.201100046

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Computer simulations dealing with the phase transitions and phase diagrams of polymer solutions, polymer mixtures, and polymers in heterogeneous environments are still a methodological challenge, since nontrivial structure occurs from the Angstrom‐scale of covalent chemical bonds to the micrometer scale in the resulting multiphase materials. A brief review of strategies that were developed to deal with these problems will be given, and a few highlights of recent results from the research groups of the authors will be described.magnified image