Classical dynamical density functional theory: from fundamentals to applications

M te Vrugt, H Löwen, R Wittkowski - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is one of the cornerstones of modern
statistical mechanics. It is an extension of the highly successful method of classical density …

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 …

Biological and synthetic membranes: What can be learned from a coarse-grained description?

M Müller, K Katsov, M Schick - Physics Reports, 2006 - Elsevier
We discuss the role coarse-grained models play in the investigation of the structure and
thermodynamics of bilayer membranes, and we place them in the context of alternative …

Dispersion of polymer-grafted nanorods in homopolymer films: theory and experiment

AL Frischknecht, MJA Hore, J Ford… - Macromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
An understanding of the dispersion of nanoparticles into polymer melts is needed in order to
control material properties of polymer nanocomposites. Here we study the dispersion of …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of melt polyelectrolyte blends and block copolymers: Phase behavior, surface tension, and microphase periodicity

CE Sing, JW Zwanikken, MO De La Cruz - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Polymer mixtures such as blends or block copolymers are of great interest in energy
applications and functional materials, and often, one or more of these species contain …

pyPRISM: a computational tool for liquid-state theory calculations of macromolecular materials

TB Martin, TE Gartner III, RL Jones, CR Snyder… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model (PRISM) theory describes the equilibrium
spatial correlations of liquid-like polymer systems including melts, blends, solutions, block …

Numerical challenges in the application of density functional theory to biology and nanotechnology

LJD Frink, AG Salinger, MP Sears… - Journal of Physics …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper summarizes our efforts to develop fast algorithms for density functional theory
(DFT) calculations of inhomogeneous fluids. Our goal is to apply DFTs to a variety of …

Numerical aspects of classical density functional theory for one-dimensional vapor-liquid interfaces

J Mairhofer, J Gross - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2017 - Elsevier
This study compares different algorithms for solving the equations of classical density
functional theory for the one-dimensional vapor-liquid interface of real fluids: Picard iteration …

Bifurcation tracking algorithms and software for large scale applications

AG Salinger, EA Burroughs, RP Pawlowski… - … Journal of Bifurcation …, 2005 - World Scientific
We present the set of bifurcation tracking algorithms which have been developed in the
LOCA software library to work with large scale application codes that use fully coupled …