Bottom-up coarse-graining: Principles and perspectives

J Jin, AJ Pak, AEP Durumeric, TD Loose… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Large-scale computational molecular models provide scientists a means to investigate the
effect of microscopic details on emergent mesoscopic behavior. Elucidating the relationship …

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 …

Introducing memory in coarse-grained molecular simulations

V Klippenstein, M Tripathy, G Jung… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Preserving the correct dynamics at the coarse-grained (CG) level is a pressing problem in
the development of systematic CG models in soft matter simulation. Starting from the seminal …

Quantum-inspired encoding enhances stochastic sampling of soft matter systems

F Slongo, P Hauke, P Faccioli, C Micheletti - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Quantum advantage in solving physical problems is still hard to assess due to hardware
limitations. However, algorithms designed for quantum computers may engender …

Multiscale simulation of soft matter systems–from the atomistic to the coarse-grained level and back

C Peter, K Kremer - Soft Matter, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Many physical phenomena and properties of soft matter systems such as synthetic or
biological materials are governed by interactions and processes on a wide range of length …

A review of multiscale computational methods in polymeric materials

A Gooneie, S Schuschnigg, C Holzer - Polymers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Polymeric materials display distinguished characteristics which stem from the interplay of
phenomena at various length and time scales. Further development of polymer systems …

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 …

Computer modelling of the surface tension of the gas–liquid and liquid–liquid interface

A Ghoufi, P Malfreyt, DJ Tildesley - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents the state of the art in molecular simulations of interfacial systems and of
the calculation of the surface tension from the underlying intermolecular potential. We …

Structure–mechanics relation of natural rubber: insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Q Chen, Z Zhang, Y Huang, H Zhao… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Attributed to its strain-induced crystallization (SIC), natural rubber (NR) exhibits more
excellent mechanical properties compared to other elastomeric materials and has been …

Topological analysis of polymeric melts: Chain-length effects and fast-converging estimators for entanglement length

RS Hoy, K Foteinopoulou, M Kröger - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2009 - APS
Primitive path analyses of entanglements are performed over a wide range of chain lengths
for both bead spring and atomistic polyethylene polymer melts. Estimators for the …