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Third virial coefficient for 4-arm and 6-arm star polymers

Sergio CaraccioloBortolo Matteo MognettiAndrea Pelissetto

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chemistry.chemical_classificationPhysicsMonatomic gasStatistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)Polymers and PlasticsOrganic ChemistryMonte Carlo methodFOS: Physical sciencesThermodynamicsPolymerStatistical mechanicsDegree of polymerizationCondensed Matter - Soft Condensed MatterCondensed Matter Physicsmonte carlo simulations; star polymers; statistical mechanics; statistical thermodynamics; virial expansionInorganic ChemistrychemistryVirial coefficientMaterials ChemistryVirial expansionSoft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)Limit (mathematics)Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics

description

We discuss the computation of the third virial coefficient in polymer systems, focusing on an additional contribution absent in the case of monoatomic fluids. We determine the interpenetration ratio and several quantities that involve the third virial coefficient for star polymers with 4 and 6 arms in the good-solvent regime, in the limit of a large degree of polymerization.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2008-01-01
10.1002/mats.200800001http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1740