Host: National Committee for IUTAM
Co-host: The Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, The Japanese Geotechnical Society, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Japan Association for Wind Engineering, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Meteorological Society of Japan, The Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, Japan Society for Computational Methods in Engineering, Architectural Institute of Japan, Atomic Energy Society of Japan, The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow, Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering, The Mathematical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers, The Heat Transfer Society of Japan, The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering
Structural properties of ionomer aggregations in a mixture of 1-propanol (NPA) and water have been investigated using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. The dependence of NPA content on the ionomer structures was studied by systematically changing the NPA content in the system. The self-assembly behavior of ionomers into cylindrical bundle-like aggregates was observed for all NPA content solutions. The ionomer aggregation size was found to tend to be larger and more dispersive at higher NPA contents, although the ionomers aggregated into one cluster at all NPA contents.