@Article{CiCP-24-3, author = {Morgane, Mahaud and Zhai, Zengqiang and Perez, Michel and Olivier, Lame and Fusco, Claudio and Laurent, Chazeau and Makke, Ali and Marque, Grégory and Morthomas, Julien}, title = {Computational Software: Polymer Chain Generation for Coarse-Grained Models Using Radical-Like Polymerization}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2018}, volume = {24}, number = {3}, pages = {885--898}, abstract = {

This paper presents major improvements in the efficiency of the so-called Radical-Like Polymerization (RLP) algorithm proposed in "Polymer chain generation for coarse-grained models using radical-like polymerization" [J. Chem. Phys. 128(2008)]. Three enhancements are detailed in this paper: (1) the capture radius of a radical is enlarged to increase the probability of finding a neighboring monomer; (2) between each growth step, equilibration is now performed with increasing the relaxation time depending on the actual chain size; (3) the RLP algorithm is now fully parallelized and proposed as a "fix" within the "Lammps" molecular dynamics simulation suite.

}, issn = {1991-7120}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2017-0146}, url = {https://global-sci.com/article/79974/computational-software-polymer-chain-generation-for-coarse-grained-models-using-radical-like-polymerization} }