% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Kobayashi:154033, author = {Kobayashi, Hideki and Winkler, Roland G.}, title = {{S}tructure of {M}icrogels with {D}ebye-{H}ückel {I}nteractions}, journal = {Polymers}, volume = {6}, number = {5}, issn = {2073-4360}, address = {Basel}, publisher = {MDPI}, reportid = {FZJ-2014-03447}, pages = {1602-1617}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The structural properties of model microgel particles are investigated by molecular dynamics simulations applying a coarse-grained model. A microgel is comprised of a regular network of polymers internally connected by tetra-functional cross-links and with dangling ends at its surface. The self-avoiding polymers are modeled as bead-spring linear chains. Electrostatic interactions are taken into account by the Debye–Hückel potential. The microgels exhibit a quite uniform density under bad solvent conditions with a rather sharp surface. With increasing Debye length, structural inhomogeneities appear, their surface becomes fuzzy and, at very large Debye lengths, well defined again. Similarly, the polymer conformations change from a self-avoiding walk to a rod-like behavior. Thereby, the average polymer radius of gyration follows a scaling curve in terms of polymer length and persistence length, with an asymptotic rod-like behavior for swollen microgels and self-avoiding walk behavior for weakly swollen gel particles.}, cin = {IAS-2 / ICS-2}, ddc = {540}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-2-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-2-20110106}, pnm = {451 - Soft Matter Composites (POF2-451)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-451}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, UT = {WOS:000337946500015}, doi = {10.3390/polym6051602}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/154033}, }