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SUBMITTER: Herranz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9612263 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Herranz Miguel M Foteinopoulou Katerina K Karayiannis Nikos Ch NC Laso Manuel M
Polymers 20221020 20
We present results on polymorphism and perfection, as observed in the spontaneous crystallization of freely jointed polymers of hard spheres, obtained in an unprecedentedly long Monte Carlo (MC) simulation on a system of 54 chains of 1000 monomers. Starting from a purely amorphous configuration, after an initial dominance of the hexagonal closed packed (HCP) polymorph and a transitory random hexagonal close packed (rHCP) morphology, the system crystallizes in a final, stable, face centered cubic ...[more]