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We gladly announce the guest lecture "Introduction on Polymers – From their synthesis to their applications", which will be given from December 9th to December 13th, 2024 by our colleague Prof. Agustín Ríos de Anda (Maître de Conférences en Chimie) from the Institut de Chimie et des Máteriaux Paris-...

It is our great pleasure to announce Maximilian Ries as winner of the ECCOMAS award for the best PhD theses 2023. The European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) grants this prestigious prize annually to two young researchers for their outstanding works in the field of ...

We are delighted to announce the publication of "Investigating fracture mechanisms in glassy polymers using coupled particle-continuum simulations" in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105884 Using the Capriccio method, coupling molecular dynam...

From July 31 to August 2, we met for our annual Capriccio mini retreat. This time, it was dedicated to a sophisticated review and further improvements of the Capriccio method. The first day was reserved for a summary of our current research activities and to an overview of the current state of the ...

The annual Capriccio Junior Party took place on July 25. This event brings together students (post)doctoral researchers of the Capriccio group. Most important, it is a great opportunity to thank the students for their highly valuable contributions to the group's scientific endeavors. Over a deliciou...

David Richard presented a talk entitled “Bridging necking and shear-banding mediated tensile failure in glasses” that closed the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar. He started with experimental observations that metallic glasses exhibit a failure mode transition from necking to shear-banding with decreas...

Sankha Aditya from the Polymers and Soft Materials Research Center at the University of Alabama demonstrated the capabilities of an extended version of the Capriccio method by means of multiscale simulations of various kinds of materials. In his talk "On correctly modeling brittle fracture using cou...

We are pleased to announce that Wuyang Zhao has received a Procope Mobility grant provided by the Embassy of France in Germany to support his visit to Sylvain Patinet at the Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (PMMH) Laboratory at the école supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles ...

We are delighted to announce the publication of "Modeling steady state rate-and temperature-dependent strain hardening behavior of glassy polymers" in Mechanics of Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.105044 This paper discusses the physical origin of rate- and temperature-depende...

In this latest paper, we evaluate the impact of the molar mass distribution on the mechanical behavior of polymer nanocomposites. To this end, we employ coarse-grained molecular dynamics with a Kremer–Grest bead–spring model on samples with varying average molar mass and dispersity. We observe the e...