Abstract
We report additional results on a simple model of polymers, namely the diffusion in concentrated polymer systems and the static properties of one long chain in a dilute melt of shorter chains. It is found, for the polymer sizes and time scales amenable to our computer calculations, that there is as yet no evidence for a "reptation" regime in a melt. There is some indication of reptation in the case of a single chain moving through fixed obstacles. No statistically significant effect of the change, from excluded volume behavior of the long chain to ideal behavior as the shorter chains grow, is observed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1557-1563 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | The Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1982 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry