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In this Article, a review is presented of recent developments in Monte Carlo simulations of chain molecules. The Rosenbluth chain insertion technique is used to calculate the free energy of the chain molecules. Furthermore, this insertion method is used to generate biased Monte Carlo moves. It is shown that this bias can be removed by adjusting the acceptance rules such that configurations are generated with their correct Boltzmann weight. This configurational‐bias Monte Carlo method can be combined with the Gibbs‐ensemble technique which results in an efficient method to simulate phase equilibria of chain molecules.
Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Quy Ong Khac, Xufeng Xu, Ting Mao