5 papers
Metastable phase separation and information retrieval in multicomponent mixtures
Rodrigo Braz Teixeira, Davide Marcato, Izaak Neri +1
Liquid mixtures can separate into phases with distinct composition. This phenomenon has recently come back to prominence due to its role in complex biological liquids, such as the…
Entropy of self-avoiding branching polymers: mean field theory and Monte Carlo simulations
Davide Marcato, Achille Giacometti, Amos Maritan +1
We study the statistics of branching polymers with excluded-volume interactions, by modeling them as single self-avoiding trees on a generic regular periodic lattice with coordinat…
Theory of polymers in binary solvent solutions: mean-field free energy and phase behavior
Davide Marcato, Achille Giacometti, Amos Maritan +1
We present a lattice model for polymer solutions, explicitly incorporating interactions with a bath of solvent and cosolvent molecules. By exploiting the well-known analogy between…
Phase behaviour and self-assembly of semiflexible polymers in poor-solvent solutions
Tobia Arcangeli, Tatjana Škrbić, Somiealo Azote +6
Using Langevin dynamics complemented by Wang-Landau Monte Carlo simulations, we study the phase behavior of single and multiple semiflexible polymer chains in solution under poor-s…
Phase behaviour of semiflexible lattice polymers in poor-solvent solution: mean-field theory and Monte Carlo simulations
Davide Marcato, Achille Giacometti, Amos Maritan +1
We study a solution of interacting semiflexible polymers with curvature energy in poor-solvent conditions on the d-dimensional cubic lattice using mean-field theory and Monte Carlo…