Abstract
A transparent conformation space renormalization group formalism is given which can incorporate arbitrary molecular weight distributions to the theory of semi-dilute polymer solutions. The closed forms for the osmotic pressure π and the mean square end-to-end distance of a single test chain are given to order ε{lunate}=4-d, d being the spatial dimensionality, as functionals of the molecular weight distribution function. The scaling form of π is compared to the recent experimental result by Noda et al. A distribution sensitive universal plot is also proposed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 460-464 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physics Letters A |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 14 1982 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
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Ohta, T., & Oono, Y. (1982). Conformation space renormalization theory of semidilute polymer solutions. Physics Letters A, 89(9), 460-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(82)90813-1