Validity of the scaling functional approach for polymer interfaces as a variational theory
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We discuss the soundness of the scaling functional (SF) approach proposed by Aubouy Guiselin and Raphael (Macromolecules 29, 7261 (1996)) to describe polymeric interfaces. In particular, we demonstrate that this approach is a variational theory. We emphasis the role of SF theory as an important link between ground-state theories suitable to describe adsorbed layers, and "classical" theories for polymer brushes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309315,
title = {Validity of the scaling functional approach for polymer interfaces as a variational theory},
author = {Manoel Manghi and Miguel Aubouy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309315},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Phys. Rev. E