In this work, we study the breakage process of an unknotted three-arm star-shaped polymer when it is pulled from its free ends by a constant force. The star polymer configuration is described through an array of monomers ...

A key point to understand the glass transition is the relationship between structural and dynamic behavior experienced by a glass former when it approaches Tg. In this work, the relaxation in a simple bead-spring polymer ...

Modelling polymers with side chains is always a challenge once the degrees of freedom are very high. In this study, we present a successful methodology to model poly[2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethyl-hexyloxy)-p-phenylenevinylene] ...

Modelling polymers with side chains is always a challenge once the degrees of freedom are very high. In this study, we present a successful methodology to model poly[2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethyl-hexyloxy)-p-phenylenevinylene] ...

We study a polymer model oil hierarchical lattices very close to the one introduced and studied in Derrida and Griffith (1989) [19] and Cook and Derrida (1989) [16]. For this model, we prove the existence of free energy ...

Chitosan (CS)/poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and Chitosan/poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (P2HEM) blends have been studied through molecular dynamic simulations. In a previous work it was found miscibility between these ...