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 …

Predicting diffusion coefficients of chemicals in and through packaging materials

X Fang, O Vitrac - Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Most of the physicochemical properties in polymers such as activity and partition coefficients,
diffusion coefficients, and their activation with temperature are accessible to direct …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer and spherical nanoparticle diffusion in nanocomposites

A Karatrantos, RJ Composto, KI Winey… - The Journal of chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Nanoparticle and polymer dynamics in nanocomposites containing spherical nanoparticles
were investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the polymer …

Topological entanglement length in polymer melts and nanocomposites by a DPD polymer model

A Karatrantos, N Clarke, RJ Composto, KI Winey - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the topological constraints (entanglements) in polymer–nanorod
nanocomposites in comparison to polymer melts using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) …

Boson peak, elasticity, and glass transition temperature in polymer glasses: Effects of the rigidity of chain bending

N Tomoshige, H Mizuno, T Mori, K Kim… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The excess low-frequency vibrational spectrum, called boson peak, and non-affine elastic
response are the most important particularities of glasses. Herein, the vibrational and …

Modelling of food and food processes

G Trystram - Journal of Food Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
Modelling is an important task in food engineering and numerous approaches are possible.
Based on the massy experience the paper discusses the challenge, interest and difficulties …

Simulated glass-forming polymer melts: Glass transition temperature and elastic constants of the glassy state

B Schnell, H Meyer, C Fond, JP Wittmer… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
By means of molecular-dynamics simulation we study a flexible and a semiflexible bead-
spring model for a polymer melt on cooling through the glass transition. Results for the glass …

Non-Gaussian and cooperative dynamics of entanglement strands in polymer melts

M Kruteva, M Zamponi, I Hoffmann, J Allgaier… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present a study on tracer diffusion of short poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO) tracers in a
strongly entangled PEO melt. We find that within the entanglement volume, the dynamics of …

Molecular dynamics simulation of associative polymers: Understanding linear viscoelasticity from the sticky Rouse model

N Jiang, H Zhang, Y Yang, P Tang - Journal of Rheology, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Polymers bearing associative groups (APs) are characterized by their fantastic viscoelastic
behaviors. In a work recently published by our group [Jiang et al., Macromolecules 53, 3438 …

In Silico Prediction of Food Properties: A Multiscale Perspective

O Vitrac, PM Nguyen, M Hayert - Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Several open software packages have popularized modeling and simulation strategies at
the food product scale. Food processing and key digestion steps can be described in 3D …