Multiscale modeling of polymer materials using field-theoretic methodologies: a survey about recent developments
@article{Baeurle2008MultiscaleMO, title={Multiscale modeling of polymer materials using field-theoretic methodologies: a survey about recent developments}, author={Stephan A. Baeurle}, journal={Journal of Mathematical Chemistry}, year={2008}, volume={46}, pages={363-426} }
Understanding the chemistry and physics of polymer systems challenges scientists from a wide spectrum of research areas, ranging from polymer science to molecular electronic structure theory. One of the characteristic features of polymer systems is that their physics involve a multitude of different length and time scales, which generally render the determination of their structure and physical properties on a detailed level computationally exhaustive. To overcome this difficulty, novel field…
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