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Self-assembly and Co-assembly of Block Polyelectrolytes in Aqueous Solutions. Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Explicit Electrostatics.
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SYSNO ASEP 0467750 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Self-assembly and Co-assembly of Block Polyelectrolytes in Aqueous Solutions. Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Explicit Electrostatics. Author(s) Procházka, K. (CZ)
Šindelka, K. (CZ)
Wang, X. (CZ)
Limpouchová, Z. (CZ)
Lísal, Martin (UCHP-M) RID, ORCID, SAISource Title Molecular Physics. - : Taylor & Francis - ISSN 0026-8976
Roč. 114, č. 21 (2016), s. 3077-3092Number of pages 16 s. Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords coarse graining ; dissipative and random forces ; smeared charges Subject RIV CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry R&D Projects GA13-02938S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) GA15-19542S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support UCHP-M - RVO:67985858 UT WOS 000389648800001 EID SCOPUS 85002825806 DOI 10.1080/00268976.2016.1225130 Annotation This topical review outlines the principles of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and discusses its use for studying electrically charged systems – particularly its application for investigation of the selfassembly of polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions. Special emphasis is placed onDPD with incorporation of explicit electrostatic forces (DPD-E). At present, this empoweredmethod is being used by only a few research groups and most studies of polyelectrolyte self-assembly are based on the ‘implicit solvent
ionic strength’approach which completely ignores electrostatics. The inclusion of electrostatics in the DPD machinery not only complicates the calculations and considerably slows down the simulation run, but it also generates some problems of primary importance that have to be solved prior to employing DPD-E to study practically important systems. In the introductory parts, we describe the principles of DPD-E, analyse all the problematic issues and show how they can be resolved or overcome. The later parts demonstrate the successful application of DPD-E. We discuss papers that study the self-assembling behaviour of two different practically important systems and show that they not only closely reproduce all the decisive features of the behaviour, but also reveal new details that are difficult to access for experimentalists. The topical review shows that the tedious calculations areworthwhile: (1) DPD-E simulations are concernedwith the true principles of the behaviour of polyelectrolyte systems and therefore provide reliable data and (2) the practically important advantage of computer simulations, i.e. their predictive power (at the level of the employed coarse-graining), which is a questionable aspect in simulations that use physically impoverished models, is not endangered in the case of DPD-E.
Workplace Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals Contact Eva Jirsová, jirsova@icpf.cas.cz, Tel.: 220 390 227 Year of Publishing 2017
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