Computer Simulation Modeling of Electrophoretic Deposition

Last Wednesday, Dr Pandey from the department of Physics gave us a lecture about the computer simulation modeling of elctronphoretic deposition.

Dr. Pandey introduced fundamental issues in polymer simulations (conformation and dynamics). And then he gave a brief overview of computer simulation methods (lattice and off-lattice). A model for electrophoretic deposition will be considered to address the following questions:

how does the polymer density (p_d) evolve at/near the surface.
how does p_d depend on the molecular weight, temperature, and driving field?
How does conformational crossover occur from bulk-to-surface?

In the framework of the fundamental issues in interfacial dynamics, data will be presented to show evidence against (widely accepted) superuniversality in favor of nonuniversal scaling for the spread of polymer chains.

Several graphs and results are also given along with his lecture.