Multiblob coarse-graining on the cover of the Journal of Chemical Physics

08.11.2016

The cover of the November 07, 2016 issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics features an article by Emanuele Locatelli, Barbara Capone and Christos Likos, in which a novel coarse-graining strategy, suitable for mixtures of linear and star-shaped homopolymeric nanocomposites, is described.

The article offers a detailed description of a combined theoretical/ numerical approach, based on a set of transferable effective potentials, that quantitatively reproduces dynamical and thermodynamical properties of the aforementioned nanocomposites, while granting a remarkable computational gain.

"Multiblob coarse-graining for mixtures of long polymers and soft colloids", Emanuele Locatelli, Barbara Capone and Christos N. Likos, J. Chem. Phys. 145, 174901 (2016).
doi:10.1063/1.4965957