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Can Polymer Coils Be Modeled as “Soft Colloids”?

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Louis, A. A., Bolhuis, P. G., Hansen, J. P., Meijer, E. J.·2000·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.85.2522
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We map dilute or semidilute solutions of nonintersecting polymer chains onto a fluid of "soft" particles interacting via a concentration dependent effective pair potential, by inverting the pair distribution function of the centers of mass of the initial polymer chains. A similar inversion is used to derive an effective wall-polymer potential; these potentials are combined to successfully reproduce the calculated exact depletion interaction induced by nonintersecting polymers between two walls. The mapping opens up the possibility of large-scale simulations of polymer solutions in complex geometries.

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Authors
Louis, A. A., Bolhuis, P. G., Hansen, J. P., & Meijer, E. J.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
2000-09-18
Volume
85
Issue
12
Pages
2522-2525
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.85.2522
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412
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16.56
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journal article
Language
en
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Louis, A. A., Bolhuis, P. G., Hansen, J. P., & Meijer, E. J. (2000). Can Polymer Coils Be Modeled as “Soft Colloids”? Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.85.2522

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