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Supplementary Code For "Chain Trajectories, Domain Shapes And Terminal Boundaries In Block Copolymers", Benjamin R. Greenvall, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Gregory M. Grason

Data and Datasets

Supplementary code used for the publication "Chain trajectories, domain shapes and terminal boundaries in block copolymers" by Benjamin R. Greenvall, Michael S. Dimitriyev, and Gregory M. Grason. Includes code for extracting and analyzing polar order and chain trajectories from self-consistent field calculations of block copolymers.

Rheological Signatures In Limit Cycle Behaviour Of Dilute, Active, Polar Liquid Crystalline Polymers In Steady Shear, M. Gregory Forest, Panon Phuworawong, Qi Wang, Ruhai Zhou

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

We consider the dilute regime of active suspensions of liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs), addressing issues motivated by our kinetic model and simulations in Forest et al. (Forest et al. 2013 Soft Matter 9, 5207-5222 (doi:10.1039/c3sm27736d)). In particular, we report unsteady two-dimensional heterogeneous flow-orientation attractors for pusher nanorod swimmers at dilute concentrations where passive LCP equilibria are isotropic. These numerical limit cycles are analogous to longwave (homogeneous) tumbling and kayaking limit cycles and two-dimensional heterogeneous unsteady attractors of passive LCPs in weak imposed shear, yet these states arise exclusively at semi-dilute concentrations where stable equilibria are nematic. The results in Forest …

Applied Analysis Of Ionic Polymer Metal-Composite Actuators, Siul Ruiz, Benjamin Mead, Woosoon Yim

College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs

• IPMC is a type of smart material called an electroactive polymer
• Consists of an ionic polymer such as Nafion or Flemion and a conducive metal such as platinum or gold
• COMSOL multi-physics simulations accurately model the experimental displacement results
• Optimization performed using the multi-physics model to find the maximum deflection, force, and twisting
• Using the closed loop control system accurate IPMC tip location can be achieved
• This control system has been extended to function using a computer mouse as an input

Stability Of The Gyroid Phase In Diblock Copolymers At Strong Segregation, Eric W. Cochran, Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera, Glenn H. Fredrickson

Eric W. Cochran

The gyroid phase in diblock copolymers at strong segregation was stabilized. The intriguing topology of the network structure has inspired a diverse array of potential applications ranging from high-performance separation membranes to photonic crystals. The pressure field enforces incompressibility, while the exchange field is conjugate to the composition pattern in the melt. The Laplacian operator is treated implicitly with a fourth-order backward differentiation formula (BDF4), whereas the source term is discretized explicitly using fourth-order accurate Adams-Bashford.