Self-Avoiding Random Walks as a Model to Study Athermal Linear Polymers under Extreme Plate Confinement

Self-Avoiding Random Walks as a Model to Study Athermal Linear Polymers under Extreme Plate Confinement

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, built around chain-connectivity-altering moves and a wall-displacement algorithm, allow us to simulate freely-jointed chains of tangent hard spheres of uniform size under extreme confinement. The latter is realized through the presence of two impenetrable, flat, and par...

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Main Authors: Oscar Parreño, Pablo Miguel Ramos, Nikos Ch. Karayiannis, Manuel Laso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Polymers
Subjects:
confinement
crystallization
entropy
hard sphere
polymer
random walk
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/12/4/799

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