Mesoscale modeling of phase transition dynamics of thermoresponsive polymers

• DOI: 10.1039/c5cc01684c
• Publication Date: 2015-06-04T10:01:47Z
• Authors: Zhen Li; Yu-Hang Tang; Xuejin Li; George Em Karniad...
• Keywords: Models, Molecular; Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); FOS: Computer and information sciences; Condensed Matter - Materials Science; Polymers; Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); FOS: Physical sciences; 02 engineering and technology; Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); 01 natural sciences; Phase Transition; 0104 chemical sciences; Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Physics - Chemical Physics; Thermodynamics; Computer Science - Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science; 0210 nano-technology; Physics - Computational Physics

A non-isothermal mesoscopic model is developed to investigate the thermally induced phase transition dynamics of thermoresponsive polymers.