Modeling of Structure Formation in Soft Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Simulation and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4644
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Interests: polymer physics; soft matter; fluid physics; computational sciences
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Dear Colleagues,
Soft materials are fascinating, ubiquitous, and relevant for a large spectrum of diverse applications at the interface between physics, chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, and biology. Built by a number of different components (e.g., colloids, polymers and active matter, liquid crystals, granular matter, proteins), soft materials can adopt different structures with unique properties that manifest in micro-, meso-, and macroscales and can also contribute to many exciting phenomena.
While recent advances in experimental and theoretical methods have offered significant insights into the structure of soft materials and increased understanding of their properties, important challenges remain. Many of these challenges can be overcome by computer modeling, in this way leading to a higher degree of understanding of the structure formation of soft materials and the unveiling of the structure–property relation that is required for the design of materials with tailor-made properties. To this end, the range of modeling methods to study soft materials varies, covering a various relevant length and time scales. Moreover, new methodologies emerge that include state-of-the-art hybrid modeling approaches, such as coupled molecular dynamics–continuum methods, which aim at achieving the full multiscale description of the systems.
This Special Issue aims to achieve two objectives: (i) to present novel computational methodologies that go beyond the current state of the art and are suitable for soft materials, and (ii) to highlight important contributions to our understanding in the structure formation of soft materials by modelling methods.
Dr. Panagiotis Theodorakis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- modelling of soft materials
- quantum/atomistic/molecular/continuum/stochastic modeling
- Artificial Intelligence
- multiscale computer simulation
- structure formation and properties
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