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19952021
most citedCooling rate effects in amorphous Silica: A Computer Simulation Study

709 citations · 7.6k across the 159 of their papers we have counts for

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160 papers

cond-mat.soft2021

Macroscopic rotation of active colloids in a colloid-polymer mixture confined inside a spherical cavity

Arabinda Bera, Kurt Binder, Sergei A. Egorov +1

From studies via Molecular Dynamics simulations, we report results on structure and dynamics in mixtures of active colloids and passive polymers that are confined inside a spherica…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 8 cited

Wetting transitions of polymer solutions: Effects of chain length and chain stiffness

Jiarul Midya, Sergei A. Egorov, Kurt Binder +1

Wetting and drying phenomena are studied for flexible and semiflexible polymer solutions via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculation…

cond-mat.soft2020

Entropic Unmixing in Nematic Blends of Semiflexible Polymers

Andrey Milchev, Sergei A. Egorov, Jiarul Midya +2

Binary mixtures of semiflexible polymers with the same chain length but different persistence lengths separate into two coexisting different nematic phases when the osmotic pressur…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 16 cited

When does Wenzel's extension of Young's equation for the contact angle of droplets apply? A density functional study

Sergei A. Egorov, Kurt Binder

he contact angle of a liquid droplet on a surface under partial wetting conditions differs for a nanoscopically rough or periodically corrugated surface from its value for a perfec…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 25 cited

Linear Dimensions of Adsorbed Semiflexible Polymers: What can be learned about their persistence length?

Andrey Milchev, Kurt Binder

Conformations of partially or fully adsorbed semiflexible polymer chains are studied varying both contour length , chain stiffness, , and the strength of the adsorption poten…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 33 cited

Phase behavior of flexible and semiflexible polymers in solvents of varying quality

Jiarul Midya, Sergei A. Egorov, Kurt Binder +1

The interplay of nematic order and phase separation in solutions of semiflexible polymers in solvents of variable quality is investigated by density functional theory (DFT) and mol…