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The European Physical Journal B
ISSN: 1434-6028 (printed version)
ISSN: 1434-6036 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 4 Issue 3 (1998) pp 321-324
Chain radius dependence on concentration in a 2D living polymer system
Y. Rouault (a)
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Received: 21 November 1997 / Received in final form: 21 April 1998 / Accepted: 24 April 1998
Abstract: A living polymer system is used to study the effect of concentration on a broad, polydisperse two-dimensional polymer system. It is found that the mean squared end-to-end radius of a chain of L monomers does not decrease by following a simple power law of the concentration but by a function of the form $R^2 (L,\phi ) = R^2(L,0){(1-cL^\varepsilon\phi)}$. An origin for such a behaviour is proposed.
PACS. 02.70.Lq Monte-Carlo and statistical methods - 64.75.+g Solubility, segregation, and mixing; phase separation - 82.35.+t Polymer reactions and polymerization
(a) email: rouault@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
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Online publication: August 17, 1998
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