https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050351
Change of the scaling behavior of the end-to-end square distance in a two-dimensional polydisperse system
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung,
Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Corresponding author: a rouault@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Received:
13
December
1996
Revised:
16
March
1998
Accepted:
27
March
1998
Published online: 15 July 1998
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
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1998
