Protein‐like behavior of multiblock copolymer chains in a selective solvent by a variety of lattice and off‐lattice Monte Carlo simulations | Zendy

Lewandowski K. | Zendy; Knychała P. | Zendy; Banaszak M. | Zendy

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Protein‐like behavior of multiblock copolymer chains in a selective solvent by a variety of lattice and off‐lattice Monte Carlo simulations

Author(s) -

Lewandowski K.,

Knychała P.,

Banaszak M.

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

physica status solidi (b)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51

H-Index - 109

eISSN - 1521-3951

pISSN - 0370-1972

DOI - 10.1002/pssb.200880252

Subject(s) - monte carlo method , lattice (music) , solvent , copolymer , statistical physics , hexagonal lattice , materials science , chemistry , physics , condensed matter physics , polymer , mathematics , organic chemistry , statistics , antiferromagnetism , acoustics

We present both lattice and off‐lattice Monte Carlo simulations for multiblock copolymer chains of two lengths, N = 64 and N = 128, with microarchitectures (8–8) 4 and (16–16) 4 , respectively. The simulations demonstrate that a variety of lattice and off‐lattice Monte Carlo methods gives the same protein‐like behavior, showing that the multiblock chains undergo a two‐step transition, first from a swollen state to a secondary “pearl‐necklace” state, and then to a tertiary superglobular state as the solvent quality decreases, that is upon cooling. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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