Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

Chemically specific coarse‐graining of polymers: Methods and prospects

S Dhamankar, MA Webb - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coarse‐grained (CG) modeling is an invaluable tool for the study of polymers and other soft
matter systems due to the span of spatiotemporal scales that typify their physics and …

Nonequilibrium processes in polymer membrane formation: Theory and experiment

M Müller, V Abetz - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Porous polymer and copolymer membranes are useful for ultrafiltration of functional
macromolecules, colloids, and water purification. In particular, block copolymer membranes …

Understanding and modeling polymers: The challenge of multiple scales

F Schmid - ACS Polymers Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer materials are multiscale systems by definition. Already the description of a single
macromolecule involves a multitude of scales, and cooperative processes in polymer …

Open macromolecular genome: Generative design of synthetically accessible polymers

S Kim, CM Schroeder, NE Jackson - ACS Polymers Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
A grand challenge in polymer science lies in the predictive design of new polymeric
materials with targeted functionality. However, de novo design of functional polymers is …

Structure, Dynamics, and Rheology of Vitrimers

J Xia, JA Kalow, M Olvera de la Cruz - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Vitrimers are associative covalent adaptable networks that undergo reversible bond-
exchange reactions while maintaining a fixed cross-linking density with changing …

Comparison of friction parametrization from dynamics and material properties for a coarse-grained polymer melt

LC Johnson, FR Phelan Jr - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this work, we extend an approach to coarse-grained (CG) modeling for polymer melts in
which the conservative potential is parametrized using the iterative Boltzmann inversion (IBI) …

Impact of molecular-level structural disruption on relaxation dynamics of polymers with end-on and side-on liquid crystal moieties

D Becerra, Y Xu, X Wang, LM Hall - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
In side-chain liquid crystal polymers (SCLCPs), short side chains are attached on a flexible
polymer backbone, and each side chain can have a liquid crystal (LC) group attached at the …

Temperature transferable and thermodynamically consistent coarse-grained model for binary polymer systems

XZ Zhang, ZY Lu, HJ Qian - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
For the simulations of polymer systems, coarse-grained (CG) models are often developed to
tackle the length and time scale limitations that are not feasible by all-atom molecular …

A machine learning enabled hybrid optimization framework for efficient coarse-graining of a model polymer

Z Shireen, H Weeratunge, A Menzel… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
This work presents a framework governing the development of an efficient, accurate, and
transferable coarse-grained (CG) model of a polyether material. The framework combines …