Can Polymer Coils Be Modeled as \char16Soft Colloids\char17? Export

@article{louis00, abstract = {We map dilute or semidilute solutions of nonintersecting polymer chains onto a fluid of ” soft” particles interacting via a concentration dependent effective pair potential; by inverting the pair distribution function of the centers of mass of the initial polymer chains. A similar inversion is used to derive an effective wall-polymer potential; these potentials are combined to successfully reproduce the calculated exact depletion interaction induced by nonintersecting polymers between two walls. The mapping opens up the possibility of large-scale simulations of polymer solutions in complex geometries.}, author = {Louis, A. A. and Bolhuis, P. G. and Hansen, J. P. and Meijer, E. J.}, citeulike-article-id = {1417078}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2522}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v85/i12/p2522_1}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://link.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v85/i12/p2522_1}, day = {18}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2522}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, keywords = {coils, colloids, polymers, soft}, month = {Sep}, number = {12}, pages = {2522--2525}, posted-at = {2007-07-31 17:34:12}, priority = {2}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {Can Polymer Coils Be Modeled as \char16{}Soft Colloids\char17{}?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2522}, volume = {85}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - louis00 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1417078 N2 - We map dilute or semidilute solutions of nonintersecting polymer chains onto a fluid of “soft” particles interacting via a concentration dependent effective pair potential; by inverting the pair distribution function of the centers of mass of the initial polymer chains. A similar inversion is used to derive an effective wall-polymer potential; these potentials are combined to successfully reproduce the calculated exact depletion interaction induced by nonintersecting polymers between two walls. The mapping opens up the possibility of large-scale simulations of polymer solutions in complex geometries. IS - 12 JF - Physical Review Letters EP - 2525 TI - Can Polymer Coils Be Modeled as \char16{}Soft Colloids\char17{}? PB - American Physical Society VL - 85 SP - 2522 KW - coils KW - colloids KW - polymers KW - soft AU - Louis, AA AU - Bolhuis, PG AU - Hansen, JP AU - Meijer, EJ PY - 2000/Sep/18/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2522 ER -