[gmx-users] Polymer melt clumping

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/12/15 6:38 AM, Pallavi Banerjee wrote:
> Hello users,
> I am carrying out an NPT equilibration of a polymer melt system of 67
> chains of Polyacrylamide of degree of polymerization 20. The polymer melt
> system appears clumped. The system does not disperse throughout the box. To
> tackle this, I adopted a method of scaling down the box vector by 0.95,
> followed by an NPT run for 500 ps with a tau-p of 20. This I did for 6
> number of times, and followed it up with a long NPT run of 10 ns with a
> tau-p of 1.5. The system hasn't dispersed yet, and thus I do not get the
> right density. How do you fix aggregation issues as this?
>

10 ns is not very long for anything.  The other possibility (as is always the 
case when the model doesn't reflect reality) is that the force field parameters 
are inadequate.

-Justin

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