Density functional approach for inhomogeneous star polymers
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We propose microscopic density functional theory for inhomogeneous star polymers. Our approach is based on fundamental measure theory for hard spheres, and on Wertheim's first- and second-order perturbation theory for the interparticle connectivity. For simplicity we consider a model in which all the arms are of the same length, but our approach can be easily extended to the case of stars with arms of arbitrary lengths.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0507373,
title = {Density functional approach for inhomogeneous star polymers},
author = {A. Malijevsky and P. Bryk and S. Sokolowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0507373},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted