Recent developments in Monte Carlo simulations of lattice models for polymer systems

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4537-4550

  Binder, K ^a   Paul, W ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHAINS; COLLOIDS; CORRELATION METHODS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SEPARATION; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; SEPARATION;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BLOCK COPOLYMER BLENDS; BOND FLUCTUATION MODEL (BFM); COLLAPSE (DRYING); CORRELATION EFFECTS; DENSE SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC MONTE CARLO; EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES; FLUCTUATION EFFECTS; FUTURE WORK; HOMO POLYMERS; LATTICE MODELING; LOCAL MOVES; LONG RANGE CORRELATION (LRC); MICRO-PHASE; MONTE CARLO SAMPLING (MCS); MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); OFF-LATTICE MODELS; OPEN PROBLEMS; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMER SYSTEMS; PRUNED ENRICHED ROSENBLUTH METHOD (PERM); SINGLE CHAINS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 48049109231     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma702843z     Document Type: Review

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