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Investigation of Structural Behaviors of Methyl Methacrylate Oligomers within Confinement Space by Coarse-grained Configurational-bias Monte Carlo Simulation

The coarse-grained configurational-bias Monte Carlo (CG-CBMC) simulation was employed to study the structural behaviors of methyl methacrylate (MMA) oligomers adsorbed on grooved substrate due to molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is probably trapped at some local energy minima and difficult to carry out over a long enough time to allow relaxation of chain motion for an enormous polymeric system. Therefore, the CG-CBMC simulation was adopted in the present study. In this study, three types of chains are classified according to their positions relative to the groove. Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 represent the entire MMA-oligomer within the groove, the MMA-oligomer partially within the groove, and the oligomer outside the groove, respectively. The orientational order parameters of Type 1 and Type 2 oligomers decrease with the increase of groove width, but the orientational order parameter of Type 3 oligomers is approximately equal to 0.1. In addition, observation of the orientational order parameters of Type 1 oligomers interacting with the grooved substrate at different interaction strengths decrease with increasing the groove width. Furthermore, the orientational order parameters of Type 1 oligomers within the narrowest (20 Å) and the widest (35 Å) groove with different depths were determined. For the narrowest groove, the arrangement of Type 1 oligomers will be influenced by the groove width. However, in the case of the widest groove, the orientational order parameter of Type 1 oligomers is approximately equal to 0.2. This study can help engineers clarify the characteristics and phenomena of physical adsorption of the molecules, as well as contributing to the application of recent technology.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0816110-124235
Date16 August 2010
CreatorsChang, Chun-Yi
ContributorsJenn-Sen Lin, Cheng-Tang Pan, Che-Hsin Lin, Jee-Gong Chang, Hui-Lung Chen, Shin-Pon Ju, Ming-Hwa R. Jen, Jin-Yuan Hsieh, Jao-Hwa Kuang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0816110-124235
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