This review article is addressed to a broad community of polymer scientists. We outline and analyse the fundamentals of the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulation method from the point of view of polymer physics and review the articles on polymer systems published in approximately the last two decades, focusing on their impact on macromolecular science. Special attention is devoted to polymer and polyelectrolyte self- and co-assembly and self-organisation and to the problems connected with the implementation of explicit electrostatics in DPD numerical machinery. Critical analysis of the results of a number of successful DPD studies of complex polymer systems published recently documents the importance and suitability of this coarse-grained method for studying polymer systems.

Department of Molecular and Mesoscopic Modelling Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals Czech Academy of Sciences Rozvojová 135 165 02 Prague Czech Republic

Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University Hlavova 8 128 43 Prague Czech Republic

Department of Physics Faculty of Science Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem Pasteurova 3632 400 96 Ústí n Labem Czech Republic

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