Student Video Nanoparticle-polymer Network
HA DANG: Today, I am going to use Mathematica to visualize a nanoparticle polymer network and to investigate how the polymer length affects of probability that polymer would cross the nanoparticles and how the polymer length affects the nanoparticle polymer network formation. Polymers and macromolecules composed of hundred to thousand subunits. They can adopt many different configuration, depending on the identity of their subunits. Common everyday examples of polymers are PTC, polystyrene, Teflon, and so on. When particles and polymers of are favorable interaction are mixed, it is not always apparent whether they will form a cross-linked network. If the polymer configuration makes the end to end distance of the polymer shorter than the distance between two particles, no polymer-particle network will form. This project will focus on visualizing the interaction between particles and polymers given polymer's length, or the number of subunits. In stage 1, we make polymer...