Temperature-Transferable Coarse-Grained potentials for ethylbenzene, polystyrene, and their mixtures
Temperature-Transferable Coarse-Grained potentials for ethylbenzene, polystyrene, and their mixtures
复制标题
DOI:
10.1021/ma801910r
复制
发表时间:
2008-11
期刊:
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
H. Qian;P. Carbone;Xiaoyu Chen;H. A. Karimi‐Varzaneh;C. Liew;F. Müller-Plathe
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
H. Qian;P. Carbone;Xiaoyu Chen;H. A. Karimi‐Varzaneh;C. Liew;F. Müller-Plathe
In this article, we present coarse-grained potentials of ethylbenzene developed at 298 K and of amorphous polystyrene developed at 500 K by the pressure-corrected iterative Boltzmann inversion method. The potentials are optimized against the fully atomistic simulations until the radial distribution functions generated from coarse-grained simulations are consistent with atomistic simulations. In the coarse-grained polystyrene melts of different chain lengths, the Flory exponent of 0.58 is obtained for chain statistics. Both potentials of polystyrene and ethylbenzene are transferable over a broad range of temperature. The thermal expansion coefficients of the fully atomistic simulations are well reproduced in the coarse-grained models for both systems. However, for the case of ethylbenzene, the coarse-grained potential is temperature-dependent. The potential needs to be modified by a temperature factor of T/T0 when it is transferred to other temperatures; T0 = 298 K is the temperature at which the coarse-gr...