2019-06-12
9:30 at HCP F 43.4

Molecular dynamics study of the entropic elasticity of gaussian & real polymer networks

Fabian Schwarz

Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich

The talk will be about how MD bead-spring simulations can be used to study both ideal networks of Gaussian chains as well as real polymer networks. MD simulations of Gaussian networks can be used to test & validate theories for ideal Gaussian networks, whereas the introduction of non-bonded interaction allows us to study real polymer networks. Finally, I will also try to evaluate the limits of MD simulation of real polymer networks.