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Mapping atomistic simulations to mesoscopic models: a systematic coarse-graining procedure for vinyl polymer chains.

Giuseppe Milano1, Florian Müller-Plathe

  • 1School of Engineering and Science, International University Bremen, D-28759, Bremen, Germany. gmilano@unisa.it

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|July 21, 2006
PubMed
Summary

This study presents a new mesoscopic model for synthetic polymers, preserving stereosequence details. This method enables efficient simulation of high molecular weight polymer melts.

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Area of Science:

  • Polymer Science
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Atomistic models of synthetic polymers are computationally expensive for large systems.
  • Capturing chain stereosequence is crucial for polymer properties.
  • Coarse-graining offers a way to simulate larger systems but often loses fine details.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a systematic procedure for coarse-graining atomistic polymer models into a mesoscopic model.
  • To retain detailed information about chain stereosequences in the mesoscopic representation.
  • To enable efficient simulations of high molecular weight vinyl polymer melts.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a mesoscopic model using superatoms representing methylene carbons based on diad type (m or r).

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  • Constructed a force field with three bond, six angle, and three nonbonded terms.
  • Employed analytical Gaussian-based potentials for bond and angle terms.
  • Utilized numerical potentials optimized by pressure-corrected iterative Boltzmann inversion for nonbonded interactions.
  • Applied the method to coarse-grain an atomistic model of atactic polystyrene.

    • Main Results:

    • Successfully coarse-grained atactic polystyrene into a mesoscopic model.
    • The mesoscopic model accurately represents structural and dynamical properties across different chain lengths.
    • Validated the model's ability to maintain stereosequence information.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed coarse-graining procedure effectively translates atomistic detail to the mesoscopic scale.
    • The developed mesoscopic model is suitable for simulating high molecular weight vinyl polymers.
    • This approach significantly enhances the feasibility of simulating polymer melts.