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Monte Carlo simulation in polymer physics: Some recent developments
Author(s) -
Binder Kurt
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
makromolekulare chemie. macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 0258-0322
DOI - 10.1002/masy.19910500103
Subject(s) - statistical physics , monte carlo method , mesophase , block (permutation group theory) , ranging , polymer , computer science , physics , liquid crystal , mathematics , optics , statistics , telecommunications , geometry , nuclear magnetic resonance
The computer simulation of macromolecular materials has to deal with phenomena on length scales from 1Å to 100Å, as well as with time scales ranging over many orders of magnitude, and thus still presents a challenge. With suitably coarse‐grained models which disregard detailed information on chemical structure nevertheless collective phenomena can be described, such as unmixing of polymer blends, mesophase ordering of block‐copolymer melts, “blob formation” in semidilute solutions, etc. Simulations of such models provide a sensitive test of approximate theories and give valuable hints for experiments.