Need Help on Simulation of Polymer Blend/copolymer system

[Daeyeon Lee <daeyeon (- at -) MIT.EDU>]

           Hello all,
  
  I am a graduate student in the Chem Eng Dept at MIT taking a course on the
 statistical mechanics of polymers.  We have a final project that we must
 submit
 by the end of the term (May 8th) and my project is to investigate the
 compatibilizing
 effect of block copolymers in immiscible polymer blend system.
  Specifically,
 it will be a blend of A and B homopolymer with A-C diblcok copolymer as a
 compatibilizer.  Unfortunately, I have no experience with computational
 simulations
 and am stuck from the beginning. I have read some papers where people have
 used Monte Carlo simulations.  I hope there is a software package that I
 can use to do simple simulations to study this kind of system.  I have used
 Biosym several times and I know that there is an amorphous cell module which
 may work for me but I am still not sure if this is where I should start.
  I would sincerely appreciate it if someone with some experience in this
 kind of work could help me out or offer some advice. Thank you very much.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Daeyeon Lee

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Daeyeon Lee
Department of Chemical Engineering/PPST
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Room 66-353
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139

Tel:  (617) 253-6477
E-mail: daeyeon (- at -) mit.edu