2009/10/22 by Hsiao‐Ping Hsu, Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Hsu, Hsiao-Ping +6
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization #FOS: Physical sciences #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Polymer crystallization and properties #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0910.4309
8 pages, 7 figures, to be published in the proceedings of "NIC Symposium 2010", eds. G. Muenster et al. (NIC, Juelich, 2010)
arxiv created 2009/10/22 · openalex publication_date 2009/10/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
As an example for the interplay of structure, dynamics, and phase behavior of macromolecular systems, this article focuses on the problem of bottle-brush polymers with either rigid or flexible backbones. On a polymer with chain length Nb, side-chains with chain length N are endgrafted with grafting density σ. Due to the multitude of characteristic length scales and the size of these polymers (typically these cylindrical macromolecules contain of the order of 10000 effective monomeric units) understanding of the structure is a challenge for experiment. But due to excessively large relaxation times (particularly under poor solvent conditions) such macromolecules also are a challenge for simulation studies. Simulation strategies to deal with this challenge, both using Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Methods, will be briefly discussed, and typical results will be used to illustrate the insight that can be gained.