Molecular Dynamics and the Rouse Model - An Introduction to the ...

Polymers sit in solvents!
Introduction
Methods
Results
Summary
Appendix
Why am I here?
Polymer physics
Polymer/solvent interaction (varies with temp.) dictates three
situations:
1 polymer ”stretched” ⇒ ”good solvent”
2 ideal random walk ⇒ ”theta condition”
3 collapses to form compact globule
Langevin dynamics
⃗F = − ⃗ ∇U − ⃗ F R (t) − ζ d⃗r
dt = m d2 ⃗r
dt 2
Daniel Bridges, Dr. Aniket Bhattacharya
Molecular Dynamics and the Rouse Model