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| '''Polymers'''
| | *[[Flory-Huggins theory]] |
| ==General==
| | *[[Models for polymers | Models]] |
| *[[Block copolymers]] | | *[[Linear polymers]] |
| **[[Diblock copolymers]]
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| *[[Branched polymers]] | | *[[Branched polymers]] |
| *[[Coil-globule transition]] | | *[[Star polymers]] |
| *[[Dendrimers]]
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| *[[Elastomers]]
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| *[[Flory exponent]]
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| *[[Helix-coil transition]]
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| *[[Linear polymers]]
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| *[[Polymer combs]] | | *[[Polymer combs]] |
| *[[Radius of gyration]]
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| *[[Random walk]]
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| *[[Ring polymers]]
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| *[[Star polymers]]
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| *[[Theta solvent]]
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| ==Simulation techniques==
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| The following are some of the [[computer simulation techniques]] specifically designed to study polymers:
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| *[[Concerted rotation algorithm]]
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| *[[End-bridging Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Fragment regrowth Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Lattice simulations (Polymers)]]
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| *[[Monte Carlo reptation moves]]
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| *[[Recoil growth]]
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| *[[RIS Metropolis Monte Carlo]]
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| ==Models==
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| ;Idealised models
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| *[[Ideal chain model]] (also known as the '''freely-jointed chain'' model)
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| *[[Bond fluctuation model]]
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| *[[Flory-Huggins theory | Flory-Huggins model]]
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| *[[Kratky-Porod model]] (also known as ''semiflexible worm-like chains'')
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| *[[Rotational isomeric state model]] (RISM)
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| *[[Rouse model]]
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| *[[Self-avoiding walk model]] (SAW)
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| ;Realistic models
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| *[[Poly(ethylene oxide)]]
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| *[[Poly(methylphenylsiloxane)]]
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| *[[Poly(methylene)]]
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| *[[Polybutadiene]]
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| ==Interesting reading== | | ==Interesting reading== |
| Some of the first ever computer simulation studies of polymers:
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| *[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)]
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| *[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)] | | *[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==
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| *Paul J. Flory "Statistical Mechanics Of Chain Molecules" (1969) ISBN 1-56990-019-1
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| *Pierre-Giles de Gennes "Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics", Cornell University Press (1979) ISBN 978-0-8014-1203-5
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| *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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| [[category: polymers]] | | [[category: polymers]] |