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Surface effects in the crystallization process of elastic flexible polymers
Stefan Schnabel, Thomas Vogel, Michael Bachmann, Wolfhard Janke
Published 2010-02-10Version 1
Investigating thermodynamic properties of liquid-solid transitions of flexible homopolymers with elastic bonds by means of multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations, we find crystalline conformations that resemble ground-state structures of Lennard-Jones clusters. This allows us to set up a structural classification scheme for finite-length flexible polymers and their freezing mechanism in analogy to atomic cluster formation. Crystals of polymers with "magic length" turn out to be perfectly icosahedral.
Journal: Chem. Phys. Lett. 476 (2009) 201
Categories: cond-mat.soft
Keywords: elastic flexible polymers, crystallization process, surface effects, multicanonical monte carlo simulations, structural classification scheme
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