Questions tagged [polymers]

Polymers is concerned with the physical properties of individual macromolecules. For questions regarding bulk behavior of ensembles of polymers, the [condensed-matter] tag may be more appropriate.

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Molecular Dynamics Software for Coarse Grained Polymers

I am looking around for MD software that I can use to simulating polymers and I can't decide which software I should use. I would like to simulate the swelling of crosslinked polymers, and I would ...
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Flory-Huggins ternary phase diagram with a neutral component

I am searching the literature for the Flory-Huggins phase diagram with the following components : polymer, solvent, and a third component that does not interact with the other components (just entropy ...
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Entropic force in polymers

According to my textbook, the elastic force in a rubber is caused to the tendency of the polymers to return to their initial disordered state of higher entropy. But isn't this looking at entropy on ...
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Hamiltonian of polymer chain

I'm reading up on classical mechanics. In my book there is an example of a simple classical polymer model, which consists of N point particles that are connected by nearest neighbor harmonic ...
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Understanding roles of energy and entropy in different polymer models

Polymers can be modeled as ideal chains and bead-springs (among other various models). However, in an ideal chain, the interactions are entirely entropic, whereas in the bead-spring model, there are ...
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