We present an approach for calculating coarse-grained angle-resolved effective pair potentials for uniaxial molecules. For integrating out the intramolecular degrees of freedom we apply umbrella sampling and steered dynamics techniques in atomistically-resolved molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations. Throughout this study we focus on disk-like molecules such as coronene. To develop the methods we focus on integrating out the van der Waals and intramolecular interactions, while electrostatic charge contributions are neglected. The resulting coarse-grained pair potential reveals a strong temperature and angle dependence. In the next step we fit the numerical data with various Gay-Berne-like potentials to be used in more efficient simulations on larger scales. The quality of the resulting coarse-grained results is evaluated by comparing their pair and many-body structure as well as some thermodynamic quantities self-consistently to the outcome of atomistic MD simulations of many-particle systems. We find that angle-resolved potentials are essential not only to accurately describe crystal structures but also for fluid systems where simple isotropic potentials start to fail already for low to moderate packing fractions. Further, in describing these states it is crucial to take into account the pronounced temperature dependence arising in selected pair configurations due to bending fluctuations.
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7 December 2014
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December 04 2014
Angle-resolved effective potentials for disk-shaped molecules
Thomas Heinemann;
Thomas Heinemann
a)
1Institut für Theoretische Physik,
Technische Universität Berlin
, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Karol Palczynski;
Karol Palczynski
b)
2Institut für Physik,
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
, Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
3Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB),
Institute of Soft Matter and Functional Materials
, Hahn-Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
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Joachim Dzubiella;
Joachim Dzubiella
c)
2Institut für Physik,
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
, Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
3Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB),
Institute of Soft Matter and Functional Materials
, Hahn-Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
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Sabine H. L. Klapp
Sabine H. L. Klapp
d)
1Institut für Theoretische Physik,
Technische Universität Berlin
, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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J. Chem. Phys. 141, 214110 (2014)
Article history
Received:
July 15 2014
Accepted:
November 16 2014
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Thomas Heinemann, Karol Palczynski, Joachim Dzubiella, Sabine H. L. Klapp; Angle-resolved effective potentials for disk-shaped molecules. J. Chem. Phys. 7 December 2014; 141 (21): 214110. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902824
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