{"id":249,"date":"2018-02-07T13:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-02-07T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:22:03","slug":"publication-on-polymer-network-scft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/2018\/02\/07\/publication-on-polymer-network-scft\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication on polymer network SCFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last year, Nick Tito, Kees Storm and myself published a paper in Macromolecules in which we propose a numerical approach to analyze the statistical mechanics of polymer networks. Starting from just the topology, specifying which nodes are connected by a polymer strand, without assuming anything about the geometry, the method converges onto the full probability density for the positions of the nodes, and provides a good estimate of the free energy of the network as a function of deformation parameters.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.macromol.7b01284\" target=\"_blank\">the paper in Macromolecules here<\/a>.<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/appl\/literatum\/publisher\/achs\/journals\/content\/mamobx\/2017\/mamobx.2017.50.issue-24\/acs.macromol.7b01284\/20171219\/images\/medium\/ma-2017-012846_0005.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From topology (left) to node position probabilities (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last year, Nick Tito, Kees Storm and myself published a paper in Macromolecules in which we[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tps.phys.tue.nl\/ellenbroek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}