Editing Polymers

'''Polymers'''
==General==
*[[Block copolymers]]
**[[Diblock copolymers]]
*[[Branched polymers]]
*[[Coil-globule transition]]
*[[Dendrimers]]
*[[Elastomers]]
*[[Flory exponent]]
*[[Helix-coil transition]]
*[[Linear polymers]]
*[[Polymer combs]]
*[[Radius of gyration]]
*[[Random walk]]
*[[Ring polymers]]
*[[Star polymers]]
*[[Theta solvent]]

==Simulation techniques==
The following are some of the [[computer simulation techniques]] specifically designed to study polymers:
*[[Concerted rotation algorithm]]
*[[End-bridging Monte Carlo]]
*[[Fragment regrowth Monte Carlo]]
*[[Lattice simulations (Polymers)]]
*[[Monte Carlo reptation moves]]
*[[Recoil growth]]
*[[RIS Metropolis Monte Carlo]]
==Models==
;Idealised models
*[[Ideal chain model]] (also known as the '''freely-jointed chain'' model)
*[[Bond fluctuation model]]
*[[Flory-Huggins theory | Flory-Huggins model]]
*[[Rotational isomeric state model]] (RISM)
*[[Rouse model]]
*[[Self-avoiding walk model]] (SAW)
;Realistic models
*[[Poly(ethylene oxide)]]
*[[Poly(methylphenylsiloxane)]]
*[[Poly(methylene)]]
*[[Polybutadiene]]

==Interesting reading==
Some of the first ever computer simulation studies of polymers:
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1740258     F. T. Wall, L. A. Hiller Jr. and D. J. Wheeler "Statistical Computation of Mean Dimensions of Macromolecules. I", Journal of Chemical Physics '''22''' pp. 1036-1041 (1954)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1730021      F. T. Wall and J. J. Erpenbeck "New Method for the Statistical Computation of Polymer Dimensions", Journal of Chemical Physics '''30''' pp. 634-637 (1959)]
==Classic texts==
*Paul J. Flory  "Statistical Mechanics Of Chain Molecules" (1969) ISBN  1-56990-019-1 
*Pierre-Giles de Gennes "Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics", Cornell University Press (1979) ISBN 978-0-8014-1203-5
*M. Doi and S. F. Edwards "The Theory of Polymer Dynamics", International Series of Monographs on Physics '''73''' Oxford University Press (1988) ISBN 978-0-19-852033-7
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