Isolating Chemical Reaction Mechanism as a Variable with Reactive Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics: Step-Growth versus Chain-Growth Polymerization

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Isolating Chemical Reaction Mechanism as a Variable with Reactive Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics: Step-Growth versus Chain-Growth Polymerization
المؤلفون: Karnes, John J., Weisgraber, Todd H., Cook, Caitlyn C., Wang, Daniel N., Crowhurst, Jonathan C., Fox, Christina A., Harris, Bradley S., Oakdale, James S., Faller, Roland, Shusteff, Maxim
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, Physics - Chemical Physics
الوصف: We present a general approach to isolate chemical reaction mechanism as an independently controllable variable across chemically distinct systems. Modern approaches to reduce the computational expense of molecular dynamics simulations often group multiple atoms into a single "coarse-grained" interaction site, which leads to a loss of chemical resolution. In this work we convert this shortcoming into a feature and use identical coarse-grained models to represent molecules that share non-reactive characteristics but react by different mechanisms. As a proof of concept we use this approach to simulate and investigate distinct, yet similar, trifunctional isocyanurate resin formulations that polymerize by either chain- or step-growth. Since the underlying molecular mechanics of these models are identical, all emergent differences are a function of the reaction mechanism only. We find that the microscopic morphologies resemble related all-atom simulations and that simulated mechanical testing reasonably agrees with experiment.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02069
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01758
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2210.01758
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02069