Porous polymer and copolymer membranes are useful for ultrafiltration of functional
macromolecules, colloids, and water purification. In particular, block copolymer membranes …

Polymeric materials display distinguished characteristics which stem from the interplay of
phenomena at various length and time scales. Further development of polymer systems …

Roughly at the time (1987) when the manuscript for the first three chapters of the present
book was completed, several breakthroughs occurred. They had a profound influence on the …

We survey results of computer simulations for the structure and dynamics of supercooled
polymer melts and films. Our survey is mainly concerned with features of a coarse grained …

We discuss the role coarse-grained models play in the investigation of the structure and
thermodynamics of bilayer membranes, and we place them in the context of alternative …

Polymers are good glass formers and allow for the study of melts near the glass transition in
(meta-) stable equilibrium. Theories of the glass transition imply such an equilibrium and …

The description of fluctuations by single chain in mean field (SCMF) simulations is discussed
and the results of this particle-based self-consistent field technique are quantitatively …

Polymeric thin films of various thicknesses, confined between two repulsive walls, have
been studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Using the anisotropy of the perpendicular …

We review various methods to investigate the statics and the dynamics of collective
composition fluctuations in dense polymer mixtures within fluctuating-field approaches. The …

A Helmholtz energy functional for inhomogeneous fluid phases based on the perturbed-
chain polar statistical associating fluid theory (PCP-SAFT) equation of state is proposed. The …