A comparative study of the properties of polar and nonpolar solvent/solute/polystyrene solutions in microwave fields via molecular dynamics.

Autor: Purdue, Mark J., MacElroy, J. M. D., O’Shea, D. F., Okuom, Macduff O., Blum, Frank D.
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Zdroj: Journal of Chemical Physics; 9/21/2006, Vol. 125 Issue 11, p114902, 13p, 7 Charts, 11 Graphs
Abstrakt: The influence of an applied microwave field on the dynamics of methylamine-dichloromethane (DCM) mixtures bound within atactic polystyrene (a-PS) over a range of polymer densities from 30 to 94 wt % polymer was examined using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. This study is an extension of previous studies on methylamine transport in relatively polar polystyrene solutions of methanol and dimethylformamide [M. J. Purdue et al., J. Chem. Phys. 124, 204904 (2006)]. A direct comparison is made across the three types of polystyrene solutions. Consideration is given to both solvent and reagent transport within the polymer solutions under zero-field conditions and in an external electromagnetic field in the canonical ensemble (NVT) at 298.0 K. Various frequencies up to 104 GHz and a rms electric field intensity of 0.1 V/Å were applied. The simulation studies were validated by comparison of the simulated zero-field self-diffusion coefficients of DCM in a-PS with those obtained using pulsed-gradient spin-echo NMR spectrometry. Athermal effects of microwave fields on solute transport behavior within polymer solutions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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