scholarly journals A Monte Carlo simulation of water + oil + ABA block copolymer ternary system. I. Patterns in thermal equilibrium

AIP Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 055312
Author(s):  
Natsuko Sugimura ◽  
Kaoru Ohno
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natsuko Nakagawa ◽  
Kaoru Ohno ◽  
Michio Tokuyama ◽  
Irwin Oppenheim ◽  
Hideya Nishiyama

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Leila Rajabibonab

<p>The simulation of adsorption processes on a heterogeneous crystal surface is the main interest of this thesis. Two applications of this event have been developed with Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation. One is how to control the crystal growth by macromolecules and the other is how to measure the effective rate of interactions near a crystal surface. The first part of this thesis, considers the effective rate of catalytic conversion on a heterogeneous catalytic surface. We assume the crystal surface has two types of active site, one is neutral and the other one is highly active. We compared our result from simulation with the analytical method that is given by the homogenization theory. Our result revealed the importance of patterns of surface energies and the size of them on reaction rate.  In the second project we consider the adsorption of a homopolymer chain on a crystal surface with two types of surface energies in order to limit the growth of one site and let the other sites grow more. We developed a new Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation method in this part, which was also applied to block copolymer chains that are more complex than a homo-polymer chain. Using this method four important phases of the polymer chains at high temperatures and also the free energies of the system across different patterns of active sites have been found. We tested different types of co-polymers to find the most differentiative block copolymer for controlling the crystal growth.</p>


2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 205137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Romiszowski ◽  
Andrzej Sikorski

2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natsuko Nakagawa ◽  
Shuji Maeda ◽  
Soh Ishii ◽  
Kaoru Ohno

1988 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Y. Shih ◽  
Wei-Heng Shill ◽  
Ilhan A. Aksay

AbstractIn this paper we are concerned with the morphology of the polymers adsorbedon surfaces, in particular di-block copolymers. Our work is motivated by the experimental findings of Fladziioannou et al. [1] on the steric forces between two adsorbed layers of di-block poly(vinyl-2-pyridine)\ polystyrene (PV2P\ PS) copolymer on mica surfaces. The PV2P block binds strongly on the mica surfaces and the PS block extends into thesolvent toluene (good solvent for PS). Hadziiouannou et al. found that the repulsive forces between the two surfaces start at a distance 1) larger than 10 times the radius of gyration RG of a free P' in toluene. Furthermore, the starting distance D increases with increasing degree of polymerization N of PS in a fashion I) ~ Na with a close to I. We,tudy the adsorption of di-block copolymer with Monte Carlo simulations. The Monte Carlo simulations are especially powerful in dealing with kinetics which is important in systems where hysteresis is observed II1 and cannot be appropriately taken into account by analytical (or numerical) calculations based onequilibrium assumptions.


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