Numerical Studies of Polymer Assembly under Soft Confinement
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Theoretical and numerical studies have provided valuable insights into understanding the underlying physical principles in the self-assembly of polymeric systems. However, often complicated interactions, non-simple geometry of system boundaries, a wide range of length and time scales related to self-assembled structures limit the usages of theoretical/numerical models. I would like to present our efforts on extending the scope of numerical approaches based on coarse-grained models to describe soft-confinement induced self-assembly, as well as to provide its kinetic routes. The model is applied to predict the evolution of non-uniform surface and how it affects the final self-assembly in block copolymer thin films and emulsion droplets in solutions. Furthermore, the effect of chain architectures in soft confinement induced self-assembly will be discussed.