New Phase Transition in Polymer Solutions with Multicomponent Solvent
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Considering the density-density correlation function of a concentrated polymer solution with multicomponent solvent we find a phase transition due to the heterogeneity of excluded volume constant. This new phase transition implies a strong enhancement of the scattered light intensity in the critical region, which can explain a recent experiment showing strong light scattering from a ternary polymer system consisting of polyethylene oxide (PEO) dissolved in nitroethane and 3methyl-pentane.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0201170,
title = {New Phase Transition in Polymer Solutions with Multicomponent Solvent},
author = {Zh. S. Gevorkian and Chin-Kun Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0201170},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Latex with 1 eps figure, revised version, submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett