Modeling Amorphous Microporous Polymers for CO2 Capture and Separations

G Kupgan, LJ Abbott, KE Hart, CM Colina - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
This review concentrates on the advances of atomistic molecular simulations to design and
evaluate amorphous microporous polymeric materials for CO2 capture and separations. A …

Molecular simulation of ionic liquids: current status and future opportunities

EJ Maginn - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Ionic liquids are salts that are liquid near ambient conditions. Interest in these unusual
compounds has exploded in the last decade, both at the academic and commercial level …

Extremely precise free energy calculations of amino acid side chain analogs: Comparison of common molecular mechanics force fields for proteins

MR Shirts, JW Pitera, WC Swope… - The Journal of chemical …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Quantitative free energy computation involves both using a model that is sufficiently faithful
to the experimental system under study (accuracy) and establishing statistically meaningful …

On the inner workings of Monte Carlo codes

D Dubbeldam, A Torres-Knoop, KS Walton - Molecular Simulation, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
We review state-of-the-art Monte Carlo (MC) techniques for computing fluid coexistence
properties (Gibbs simulations) and adsorption simulations in nanoporous materials such as …

Equilibration of long chain polymer melts in computer simulations

R Auhl, R Everaers, GS Grest, K Kremer… - The Journal of chemical …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Several methods for preparing well equilibrated melts of long chains polymers are studied.
We show that the standard method in which one starts with an ensemble of chains with the …

Understanding and modeling polymers: The challenge of multiple scales

F Schmid - ACS Polymers Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer materials are multiscale systems by definition. Already the description of a single
macromolecule involves a multitude of scales, and cooperative processes in polymer …

Molecular scale simulations on thermoset polymers: A review

C Li, A Strachan - Journal of polymer science part B: polymer …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews the field of molecular simulations of thermoset polymers. This class of
polymers is of interest in applications ranging from structural components for aerospace to …

Polymatic: a generalized simulated polymerization algorithm for amorphous polymers

LJ Abbott, KE Hart, CM Colina - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2013 - Springer
This work presents a generalized structure generation methodology for amorphous
polymers by a simulated polymerization technique and 21-step molecular dynamics …

Load-bearing entanglements in polymer glasses

C Bukowski, T Zhang, RA Riggleman, AJ Crosby - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Through a combined approach of experiment and simulation, this study quantifies the role of
entanglements in determining the mechanical properties of glassy polymer blends. Uniaxial …

Simple models for complex nonequilibrium fluids

M Kröger - Physics reports, 2004 - Elsevier
This review is concerned with the nonequilibrium dynamics and structure of complex fluids
based on simple micro-and mesoscopic physical models which are not rigorously solvable …