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Nkepsu Mbitou RL, Goujon F, Dequidt A, Latour B, Devémy J, Martzel N, Hauret P, Malfreyt P. Autohesion Mechanisms at Interfaces Between Random Copolymer Melts: Mesoscopic Simulations with Realistic Coarse-Grained Models. Chemphyschem 2024:e202400114. [PMID: 38669321 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 04/07/2024] [Accepted: 04/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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The increase in welding time during the interdiffusion of a pair of non reacting random copolymer melts favors the strength rate of healing at the interface. Furthermore, the diffusion kinetic during the interpenetration of copolymer chains across the interface is strongly dependent on molecular weight. In this paper we perform mesoscopic simulations with realistic coarse grain models to study the autohesion mechanism across the interface between slightly entangled styrene-butadiene random copolymer melts.
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- R L Nkepsu Mbitou
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, F, 63000, France
- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, F, 63000, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, F, 63000, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, F, 63000, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, F, 63000, France
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Zhang XZ, Shi R, Lu ZY, Qian HJ. Chemically Specific Systematic Coarse-Grained Polymer Model with Both Consistently Structural and Dynamical Properties. JACS AU 2024; 4:1018-1030. [PMID: 38559727 PMCID: PMC10976574 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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The coarse-grained (CG) model serves as a powerful tool for the simulation of polymer systems; its reliability depends on the accurate representation of both structural and dynamical properties. However, strong correlations between structural and dynamical properties on different scales and also a strong memory effect, enforced by chain connectivity between monomers in polymer systems, render developing a chemically specific systematic CG model a formidable task. In this study, we report a systematic CG approach that combines the iterative Boltzmann inversion (IBI) method and the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) dynamics. Structural properties are ensured by using conservative CG potentials derived from the IBI method. To retrieve the correct dynamical properties in the system, we demonstrate that using a combination of a Rouse-type delta function and a time-dependent short-time kernel in the GLE simulation is practically efficient. The former can be used to adjust the long-time diffusion dynamics, and the latter can be reconstructed from an iterative procedure according to the velocity autocorrelation function (ACF) from all-atomistic (AA) simulations. Taking the polystyrene as an example, we show that not only structural properties of radial distribution function, intramolecular bond, and angle distributions can be reproduced but also dynamical properties of mean-square displacement, velocity ACF, and force ACF resulted from our CG model have quantitative agreement with the reference AA model. In addition, reasonable agreements are observed in other collective properties between our GLE-CG model and the AA simulations as well.
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular
Structure and Materials, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, College
of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular
Structure and Materials, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, College
of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
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Masella M, Léonforté F. Chitosan Polysaccharides from a Polarizable Multiscale Approach. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:35592-35607. [PMID: 37810703 PMCID: PMC10551911 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c01584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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We report simulations of chitosan polysaccharides in the aqueous phase, at infinite dilute conditions and zero ionic strength. Those simulations are performed by means of a polarizable multiscale modeling scheme that relies on a polarizable all atom force field to model solutes and on a polarizable solvent coarse grained approach. Force field parameters are assigned only from quantum chemistry ab initio data. We simulate chitosan monomer units, dimers and 50-long chains. Regarding the 50-long chains we simulate three sets of ten randomly built chain replica at three different pH conditions (corresponding to different chain protonation states, the chain degree of deacetylation is 85%). Our simulations show the persistence length of 50-long chitosan chains at strong acidic conditions (pH <5) to be 24 ± 2 nm (at weak/negligible ionic strength conditions), and to be 1 order of magnitude shorter at usual pH conditions. Our simulation data support the most recent simulation and experimental studies devoted to chitosan polysaccharides in the aqueous phase.
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- Michel Masella
- Laboratoire
de Biologie Bioénergétique, Métalloprotéines et Stress, Service de Bioénergétique,
Biologie Structurale et Mécanismes, Institut Joliot, CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette Cedex F-91191, France
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- L’Oréal
Group, Research & Innovation, Aulnay-Sous-Bois 93600, France
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Polymer brushes for friction control: Contributions of molecular simulations. Biointerphases 2023; 18:010801. [PMID: 36653299 DOI: 10.1116/6.0002310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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When polymer chains are grafted to solid surfaces at sufficiently high density, they form brushes that can modify the surface properties. In particular, polymer brushes are increasingly being used to reduce friction in water-lubricated systems close to the very low levels found in natural systems, such as synovial joints. New types of polymer brush are continually being developed to improve with lower friction and adhesion, as well as higher load-bearing capacities. To complement experimental studies, molecular simulations are increasingly being used to help to understand how polymer brushes reduce friction. In this paper, we review how molecular simulations of polymer brush friction have progressed from very simple coarse-grained models toward more detailed models that can capture the effects of brush topology and chemistry as well as electrostatic interactions for polyelectrolyte brushes. We pay particular attention to studies that have attempted to match experimental friction data of polymer brush bilayers to results obtained using molecular simulations. We also critically look at the remaining challenges and key limitations to overcome and propose future modifications that could potentially improve agreement with experimental studies, thus enabling molecular simulations to be used predictively to modify the brush structure for optimal friction reduction.
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Nkepsu Mbitou RL, Goujon F, Dequidt A, Latour B, Devémy J, Blaak R, Martzel N, Emeriau-Viard C, Tchoufag J, Garruchet S, Munch E, Hauret P, Malfreyt P. Consistent and Transferable Force Fields for Statistical Copolymer Systems at the Mesoscale. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:6940-6951. [PMID: 36205431 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The statistical trajectory matching (STM) method was applied successfully to derive coarse grain (CG) models for bulk properties of homopolymers. The extension of the methodology for building CG models for statistical copolymer systems is much more challenging. We present here the strategy for developing CG models for styrene-butadiene-rubber, and we compare the quality of the resulting CG force fields on the structure and thermodynamics at different chemical compositions. The CG models are used through the use of a genuine mesoscopic method called the dissipative particle dynamics method and compared to high-resolution molecular dynamics simulations. We conclude that the STM method is able to produce coarse-grained potentials that are transferable in composition by using only a few reference systems. Additionally, this methodology can be applied on any copolymer system.
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- R L Nkepsu Mbitou
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France.,Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Tokhadzé N, Sahnoune M, Devémy J, Dequidt A, Goujon F, Chennell P, Sautou V, Malfreyt P. Insulin Adsorption onto PE and PVC Tubings. ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS 2022; 5:2567-2575. [PMID: 35549028 DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.2c00029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We investigate the adsorption of insulin onto PE and PVC materials by using HPLC measurements and computer simulations. We interpret the experiments by calculating the Gibbs free energy profiles during the adsorption process. The values of free energy of adsorption show a good agreement with the experimental measurements. The adsorption of insulin onto the different materials is characterized through the conformational changes with respect to its conformation in water and the interfacial regions, which are described by specific arrangements of polymer chains, water, insulin, and plasticizer molecules.
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- Nicolas Tokhadzé
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont Auvergne INP, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont Auvergne INP, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont Auvergne INP, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Reisjalali M, Manurung R, Carbone P, Troisi A. Development of hybrid coarse-grained atomistic models for rapid assessment of local structuring of polymeric semiconductors. MOLECULAR SYSTEMS DESIGN & ENGINEERING 2022; 7:294-305. [PMID: 35646391 PMCID: PMC9074845 DOI: 10.1039/d1me00165e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Decades of work in the field of computational study of semiconducting polymers using atomistic models illustrate the challenges of generating equilibrated models for this class of materials. While adopting a coarse-grained model can be helpful, the process of developing a suitable model is particularly non-trivial and time-consuming for semiconducting polymers due to a large number of different interactions with some having an anisotropic nature. This work introduces a procedure for the rapid generation of a hybrid model for semiconducting polymers where atoms of secondary importance (those in the alkyl side chains) are transformed into coarse-grained beads to reduce the computational cost of generating an equilibrated structure. The parameters are determined from easy-to-equilibrate simulations of very short oligomers and the model is constructed to enable a very simple back-mapping procedure to reconstruct geometries with atomistic resolution. The model is illustrated for three related polymers containing DPP (diketopyrrolopyrrole) to evaluate the transferability of the potential across different families of polymers. The accuracy of the model, determined by comparison with the results of fully equilibrated simulations of the same material before and after back-mapping, is fully satisfactory for two out of the three cases considered. We noticed that accuracy can be determined very early in the workflow so that it is easy to assess when the deployment of this method is advantageous. The hybrid representation can be used to evaluate directly the electronic properties of structures sampled by the simulations.
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- Maryam Reisjalali
- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Crown St L69 7ZD Liverpool UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Crown St L69 7ZD Liverpool UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Oxford Road M13 9PL Manchester UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Crown St L69 7ZD Liverpool UK
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Polymer science is one of the few fundamental research fields where the results can be transferred into real-life products almost immediately. Industries need collaborations with the best researchers (universities or national laboratories) to elevate the field and favor the development of new materials, which will boost the chemical and materials business economy and ensure that innovative and sustainable polymer products are constantly being brought to the market. The mechanisms to ensure a seamless and fruitful collaboration are numerous, but few approaches really manage to incorporate the full range of polymer research from a molecular understanding to a macroscopic control of properties. We review some of the main components of standard industry-academia collaborations and propose to develop polymer open centers that put the business development objective as the starting point of the collaboration and allow those to gather and focus on different scientific fields toward a common objective.
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Solano Canchaya JG, Clavier G, Garruchet S, Latour B, Martzel N, Devémy J, Goujon F, Dequidt A, Blaak R, Munch E, Malfreyt P. Rheological properties of polymer chains at a copper oxide surface: Impact of the chain length, surface coverage, and grafted polymer shape. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:024501. [PMID: 34525648 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.024501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We employ a recently derived semirealistic set of coarse-grained interactions to simulate polymer brushes of cis-1,4-polybutadiene grafted on a cuprous-oxide surface within the framework of dissipative particle dynamics. We consider two types of brushes, I and Y, that differ in the way they are connected to the surface. Our model explores the impact of free polymer chain length, grafting density of the brush, and imposed shear rate on the structural and dynamic properties of complex metal oxide polymer interfaces.
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- José G Solano Canchaya
- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Clavier G, Blaak R, Dequidt A, Goujon F, Devémy J, Latour B, Garruchet S, Martzel N, Munch É, Malfreyt P. Assessing the derivation of time parameters from branched polymer coarse-grain model. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:124901. [PMID: 33810686 DOI: 10.1063/5.0039843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The parameterization of rheological models for polymers is often obtained from experiments via the top-down approach. This procedure allows us to determine good fitting parameters for homogeneous materials but is less effective for polymer mixtures. From a molecular simulation point of view, the timescales needed to derive those parameters are often accessed through the use of coarse-grain potentials. However, these potentials are often derived from linear model systems and the transferability to a more complex structure is not straightforward. Here, we verify the transferability of a potential computed from linear polymer simulations to more complex molecular shapes and present a type of analysis, which was recently formulated in the framework of a tube theory, to a coarse-grain molecular approach in order to derive the input parameters for a rheological model. We describe the different behaviors arising from the local topological structure of molecular sub-units. Coarse-grain models and mean-field based tube theory for polymers form a powerful combination with potentially important applications.
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- Germain Clavier
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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A multiscale approach to discrete element modeling is presented. A distinctive feature of the method is that each macroscopic discrete element has an associated atomic sample representing the material’s atomic structure. The dynamics of the elements on macro and micro levels are described by systems of ordinary differential equations, which are solved in a self-consistent manner. A full cycle of multiscale simulations is applied to polycrystalline silicon. Macroscale elastic properties of silicon were obtained only using data extracted from the quantum mechanical properties. The results of computational experiments correspond well to the reference data.
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Tanis I, Rousseau B, Soulard L, Lemarchand CA. Assessment of an anisotropic coarse-grained model for cis-1,4-polybutadiene: a bottom-up approach. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:621-636. [PMID: 33206108 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm01572e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The spherical representation usually utilized for the coarse-grained particles of soft matter systems is an assumption and pertinent studies have shown that both structural and dynamical properties can depend on anisotropic effects. On these grounds, we develop coarse-grained equations of motion which take into account explicitly the anisotropy of the beads. As a first step, this model incorporates only conservative terms. Inclusion of the dissipative and random terms is in principle possible but is beyond the scope of this study. The translational dynamics of the beads is tracked using the position and momentum of their center of mass, while their rotational dynamics is modeled by representing their orientation through the use of quaternions, similarly to the case of rigid bodies. The associated force and torque controlling the motion are derived from atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations via a bottom-up approach and define a coarse-grained potential. The assumptions of the model are clearly stated and checked for a reference system of a cis-1,4-polybutadiene melt. In particular, the choice of the angular velocity as a slow variable is justified by comparing its dynamics to atomic vibrations. The accuracy of this approach to reproduce static structural features of the polymer melt is assessed.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR 8000, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CEA, DAM, DIF, 91297 Arpajon Cedex, France. and Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Laboratoire Matière sous Conditions Extrêmes, 91680, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
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- CEA, DAM, DIF, 91297 Arpajon Cedex, France. and Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Laboratoire Matière sous Conditions Extrêmes, 91680, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
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Goujon F, Martzel N, Dequidt A, Latour B, Garruchet S, Devémy J, Blaak R, Munch É, Malfreyt P. Backbone oriented anisotropic coarse grains for efficient simulations of polymers. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:214901. [PMID: 33291912 DOI: 10.1063/5.0019945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Despite the fact that anisotropic particles have been introduced to describe molecular interactions for decades, they have been poorly used for polymers because of their computing time overhead and the absence of a relevant proof of their impact in this field. We first report a method using anisotropic beads for polymers, which solves the computing time issue by considering that beads keep their principal orientation alongside the mean local backbone vector of the polymer chain, avoiding the computation of torques during the dynamics. Applying this method to a polymer bulk, we study the effect of anisotropic interactions vs isotropic ones for various properties such as density, pressure, topology of the chain network, local structure, and orientational order. We show that for different classes of potentials traditionally used in molecular simulations, those backbone oriented anisotropic beads can solve numerous issues usually encountered with isotropic interactions. We conclude that the use of backbone oriented anisotropic beads is a promising approach for the development of realistic coarse-grained potentials for polymers.
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- Florent Goujon
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Martzel N, Dequidt A, Devémy J, Blaak R, Garruchet S, Latour B, Goujon F, Munch E, Malfreyt P. Grain Shape Dynamics for Molecular Simulations at the Mesoscale. ADVANCED THEORY AND SIMULATIONS 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/adts.202000124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Nicolas Martzel
- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9 Clermont‐Ferrand 63040 France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont Institut de Chimie de Clermont‐Ferrand Clermont‐Ferrand F‐63000 France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont Institut de Chimie de Clermont‐Ferrand Clermont‐Ferrand F‐63000 France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont Institut de Chimie de Clermont‐Ferrand Clermont‐Ferrand F‐63000 France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9 Clermont‐Ferrand 63040 France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9 Clermont‐Ferrand 63040 France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont Institut de Chimie de Clermont‐Ferrand Clermont‐Ferrand F‐63000 France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9 Clermont‐Ferrand 63040 France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont Institut de Chimie de Clermont‐Ferrand Clermont‐Ferrand F‐63000 France
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Kempfer K, Devémy J, Dequidt A, Couty M, Malfreyt P. Multi-scale modeling of the polymer-filler interaction. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:1538-1547. [PMID: 31939976 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01959f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
We report mesoscopic simulations of the interaction between a silica nanoparticle and cis-1,4-polybutadiene chains with realistic coarse-(CG) grained models. The CG models are obtained with a bottom-up Bayesian method based on trajectory matching of atomistic configurations of the system. We then investigate the structural properties of the interfacial region as a function of the grafting density and polymer chain length. We take advantage of the realistic CG models to explore the dynamics of the nanoparticle over a period of 10 microseconds. We show that the dynamics of the nanoparticle is affected by the grafting density and the polymer chain length of the grafted chains.
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- Kevin Kempfer
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Recent Progress towards Chemically-Specific Coarse-Grained Simulation Models with Consistent Dynamical Properties. COMPUTATION 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/computation7030042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Coarse-grained (CG) models can provide computationally efficient and conceptually simple characterizations of soft matter systems. While generic models probe the underlying physics governing an entire family of free-energy landscapes, bottom-up CG models are systematically constructed from a higher-resolution model to retain a high level of chemical specificity. The removal of degrees of freedom from the system modifies the relationship between the relative time scales of distinct dynamical processes through both a loss of friction and a “smoothing” of the free-energy landscape. While these effects typically result in faster dynamics, decreasing the computational expense of the model, they also obscure the connection to the true dynamics of the system. The lack of consistent dynamics is a serious limitation for CG models, which not only prevents quantitatively accurate predictions of dynamical observables but can also lead to qualitatively incorrect descriptions of the characteristic dynamical processes. With many methods available for optimizing the structural and thermodynamic properties of chemically-specific CG models, recent years have seen a stark increase in investigations addressing the accurate description of dynamical properties generated from CG simulations. In this review, we present an overview of these efforts, ranging from bottom-up parameterizations of generalized Langevin equations to refinements of the CG force field based on a Markov state modeling framework. We aim to make connections between seemingly disparate approaches, while laying out some of the major challenges as well as potential directions for future efforts.
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Solano Canchaya JG, Dequidt A, Garruchet S, Latour B, Martzel N, Devémy J, Goujon F, Blaak R, Schnell B, Munch E, Seeboth N, Malfreyt P. Development of a coarse-grain model for the description of the metal oxide-polymer interface from a bottom-up approach. J Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5115148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- José G. Solano Canchaya
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, 23, Place des Carmes, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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