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The European Physical Journal B
ISSN: 1434-6028 (printed version)
ISSN: 1434-6036 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 4 Issue 1 (1998) pp 61-64
Change of the scaling behavior of the end-to-end square distance in a two-dimensional polydisperse system
Y. Rouault (a)
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Received: 13 December 1996 / Revised: 16 March 1998 / Accepted: 27 March 1998
Abstract: The simulation of a two-dimensional, broadly polydisperse, living polymers system at high concentration reveals an unusual conformational behaviour for the longer chains. Unlike in three dimensions, the longer chains are not swollen but are squeezed by the smaller chains. This observation is discussed in terms of a two dimensional solvent- polymer mixture whose solvent particules are larger than the polymer monomers.
PACS. 61.25.Hq Macromolecular and polymer solutions; polymer melts; swelling - 05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics; Ising problems - 64.60.Cn Order-disorder transformations; statistical mechanics of model systems
(a) email: rouault@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
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Online publication: July 27, 1998
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