CPOS Seminar: "Application of Coh"erent States Field Theory in Polymer Compatibilization

Speaker: Dan Sun, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Barbara - Department of Chemistry, Glenn Fredrickson Group

Polymer compatibilization is crucial for recycling mixed plastic waste. For the reactive blending approach, supramolecular interactions are introduced to enhance the miscibility of otherwise immiscible polymer blends. Modeling such mixtures is challenging with conventional auxiliary-field methods. In this work, we leverage a recently developed coherent states field theory to explore the limits of compatibilization in immiscible polymer blends. The CS framework, which automatically enumerates all possible reaction products, enables the efficient simulation of multi-functional polymer chains.