Condensation of a chain polymer molecule

A. Isihara and C.H. Isihara

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1975, vol. 81, issue 4, 623-632

Abstract: A new expression for the expansion coefficient of a flexible chain polymer molecule can be given in such a way that its first term corresponds to the case with only a hard-sphere repulsion and the other terms represent the effects of attraction between the segments. For low and high temperatures, more convenient expressions are used to find a possible condensation into a liquid-like condensed state from a gas-like state. It is found that in the condensed state, the square average end-to-end distance varies as Nϵ, where N is the number of segments and the exponent ϵ is around 0.6 in contrast to 1.2 for the high temperature case.

Date: 1975
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(75)90078-3

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