Coarse-grained A-graft-B model of poly(lactic acid) for molecular dynamics simulationsстатья
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Аннотация:A mesoscopic model of poly(lactic acid) is developed where the polymer is represented as an A-graft-B chain with monomer units consisting of two covalently connected beads. A coarse-graining algorithm is proposed to convert an atomistic model of PLA into a coarse-grained one. The developed model is based on atomistic simulations of oligolactides in order to take into account terminal groups correctly. It was used for coarse-grained simulations of polylactide. Gyration radii and end to end distances of polymer chains as well as the density of the polymer melt are shown to be in a good agreement with those obtained from atomistic simulations. The thermal expansion coefficients of the OLA melts calculated using the coarse-grained model are in reasonable agreement with those obtained from all-atom molecular dynamics. The model provides a 17-fold speedup compared with atomistic calculations.