In the preceding paper [A. E. Ismail, G. C. Rutledge, and G. Stephanopoulos J. Chem. Phys. (in press)] we introduced wavelet-accelerated Monte Carlo (WAMC), a coarse-graining methodology based on the wavelet transform, as a method for sampling polymer chains. In the present paper, we extend our analysis to consider excluded-volume effects by studying self-avoiding chains. We provide evidence that the coarse-grained potentials developed using the WAMC method obey phenomenological scaling laws, and use simple physical arguments for freely jointed chains to motivate these laws. We show that coarse-grained self-avoiding random walks can reproduce results obtained from simulations of the original, more-detailed chains to a high degree of accuracy, in orders of magnitude less time.

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