Scaling of polymers in aligned rods

J. M. Deutsch; M. Warkentin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.257802

Scaling of polymers in aligned rods

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Authors: J. M. Deutsch , M. Warkentin

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Abstract

We study the behavior of self avoiding polymers in a background of vertically aligned rods that are either frozen into random positions or free to move horizontally. We find that in both cases the polymer chains are highly elongated, with vertical and horizontal size exponents that differ by a factor of 3. Though these results are different than previous predictions, our results are confirmed by detailed computer simulations.

Keywords

polymer physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409438,
  title  = {Scaling of polymers in aligned rods},
  author = {J. M. Deutsch and M. Warkentin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409438},
  year   = {2009}
}