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Full Screen- Title
- Declaration
- Certificate
- Acknowledgement
- Glossary of Terms
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature Review
- Models of polymer chains
- Monte Carlo methods
- Polymer chain dimensions
- Equilibrium vs Kinetic walks
- Dendrimers
- 3. Theorectical Background
- 3.1 Statistical mechanics preliminaries
- 3.2 Configurational statistics of chain molecules
- 3.3 The excluded volume effect
- 3.4 Effect of solvents
- 3.5 Polymer chain models
- 3.6 Molecular modelling of reacting polymers
- 4. Computational Methods
- 4.1 Simulation of polymers and common simulation techniques
- 4.2 The Polyethylene (PE) chain: our system of study
- 4.3 The potential functions
- 4.5 Simulation of the Polyethylene (PE) chain
- 4.6 Growing self-avoiding walk (GSAW) on a Euclidean lattice
- 4.7 Distributed computing
- 5. Results and Discussion
- 5.1 Results of Growing self-avoiding walk (GSAW) on lattices
- 5.2 Results of modelling of Polyethylene chain
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendices