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Microphase separation of a block-co-polymer melt

A snapshot from a Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) simulation of a A3B7 block copolymer melt undergoing microphase separation.

 

A3B7 means that the polymer consist of two parts (A and B) that have different solubilities. The total length of the polymer is 10, part A consisting of 3 monomers and part B of 7.

 

References:

 

1. Multiscale modeling of emergent materials: biological and soft matter

Teemu Murtola, Alex Bunker, Ilpo Vattulainen, Markus Deserno, and Mikko Karttunen

PCCP 11, 1869-1892 (2009). [on-line]

 

2. How would you integrate the equations of motion in dissipative particle dynamics simulations? Petri Nikunen, Mikko Karttunen, and Ilpo Vattulainen Comp. Phys. Comm. 153, 407-421 (2003) [Online]

 

3. Towards better integrators for dissipative particle dynamics simulations, G. Besold, I. Vattulainen, M. Karttunen, and J.M. Polson, Phys. Rev. E, vol. 63, pp. R7611-R7614 (2000) [Online].

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