Spontaneous Crystallization in Athermal Polymer Packings

Spontaneous Crystallization in Athermal Polymer Packings

We review recent results from extensive simulations of the crystallization of athermal polymer packings. It is shown that above a certain packing density, and for sufficiently long simulations, all random assemblies of freely-jointed chains of tangent hard spheres of uniform size show a spontaneous...

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Main Authors: Nikos Ch. Karayiannis, Katerina Foteinopoulou, Manuel Laso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-12-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Subjects:
polymer
crystallization
entropy
phase transition
Voronoi tesselation
simulation
Monte Carlo
hard sphere
random packing
crystal morphology
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/14/1/332

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