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The study of surface-polymer interface properties (e.g. adhesion behaviour and its influence on the melt morphology) is a field of large interest for scientific as well as technological reasons. The theoretical description and prediction of such properties plays a crucial role in improving technological processes but at the same time requires the development of accurate tools of study. Current analytical and semi-analytical approaches (see for example Refs.[Ei94,Fl98]) describe polymers and surfaces as ideal mathematical objects while simulation studies have been restricted to bead-spring models of polymers interacting with a purely repulsive wall or a wall with an arbitrary attraction (see for example Ref.[Ab02a]
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Site, L.D. (2004). Polymers near a Surface: An ab initio Density Functional based Multiscale Modeling Approach. In: Attinger, S., Koumoutsakos, P. (eds) Multiscale Modelling and Simulation. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18756-8_8
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