By employing dynamic Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate a coil-to-toroid transition of self-attractive semiflexible polymers and the spatial distributions of nanoparticles in self- attractive semiflexible polymer...By employing dynamic Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate a coil-to-toroid transition of self-attractive semiflexible polymers and the spatial distributions of nanoparticles in self- attractive semiflexible polymer/nanoparticle composites. The conformation of self-attractive semiflexible polymers depends on bending energy and self-attractive interactions between monomers in polymer chains. A three-stage process of toroid formation for self-attractive semiflexible chains is shown： several isolated toroids, a loose toroid structure, and a compact toroid structure. Utilizing the compact toroid conformations of self-attractive semiflexible chains, we can control effectively the spatial distributions of nanoparticles in self-attractive semiflexible polymer nanocomposites, and an unconventional toroid structure of nanoparti- cles is observed.展开更多
文摘By employing dynamic Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate a coil-to-toroid transition of self-attractive semiflexible polymers and the spatial distributions of nanoparticles in self- attractive semiflexible polymer/nanoparticle composites. The conformation of self-attractive semiflexible polymers depends on bending energy and self-attractive interactions between monomers in polymer chains. A three-stage process of toroid formation for self-attractive semiflexible chains is shown： several isolated toroids, a loose toroid structure, and a compact toroid structure. Utilizing the compact toroid conformations of self-attractive semiflexible chains, we can control effectively the spatial distributions of nanoparticles in self-attractive semiflexible polymer nanocomposites, and an unconventional toroid structure of nanoparti- cles is observed.
