%0 Journal Article %1 louis00a %A Louis, A. A. %A Bolhuis, P. G. %A Hansen, J. P. %A Meijer, E. J. %D 2000 %J Physical Review Letters %K imported %N 12 %P 2522--2525 %T Can Polymer Coils be modeled as "Soft Colloids" %V 85 %X We map dilute or semidilute solutions of nonintersecting polymer chains onto a fluid of "soft" particles interacting via a concentration dependent effective pair potential, by inverting the pair distribution function of the centers of mass of the initial polymer chains. A similar inversion is used to derive an effective wall-polymer potential; these potentials are combined to successfully reproduce the calculated exact depletion interaction induced by nonintersecting polymers between two walls. The mapping opens up the possibility of large-scale simulations of polymer solutions in complex geometries.

@article{louis00a, abstract = {We map dilute or semidilute solutions of nonintersecting polymer chains onto a fluid of {"}soft{"} particles interacting via a concentration dependent effective pair potential, by inverting the pair distribution function of the centers of mass of the initial polymer chains. A similar inversion is used to derive an effective wall-polymer potential; these potentials are combined to successfully reproduce the calculated exact depletion interaction induced by nonintersecting polymers between two walls. The mapping opens up the possibility of large-scale simulations of polymer solutions in complex geometries.}, added-at = {2007-06-15T17:33:15.000+0200}, author = {Louis, A. A. and Bolhuis, P. G. and Hansen, J. P. and Meijer, E. J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/280379e14a4b140ec7fe571b5ef11d9f6/kaigrass}, interhash = {7b1d9ae363030ed827afae98102cfdc0}, intrahash = {80379e14a4b140ec7fe571b5ef11d9f6}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, keywords = {imported}, number = 12, pages = {2522--2525}, timestamp = {2007-06-15T17:33:21.000+0200}, title = {Can Polymer Coils be modeled as {"}Soft Colloids{"}}, volume = 85, year = 2000 }