Issue 11, 2011
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Soft Matter

Rescaling of structural length scales for “soft effective segment” representations of polymers in good solvent

Ivan Coluzza,*a   Barbara Caponea  and  Jean-Pierre Hansenbc  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, Vienna, Austria
E-mail: ivan.coluzza@univie.ac.at

b Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK

c PECSA, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Abstract

It is shown by simple scaling arguments that the structural length scales of semi-dilute polymer solutions, calculated from coarse-grained “soft effective segment” representations of long polymers, need to be rescaled by a single, well-defined scaling factor to match the corresponding properties of the underlying microscopic polymer model. The validity of this rescaling is illustrated by extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the density profiles and average height of stretched polymer brushes. PACS numbers: 68.47.Mn, 68.47.Pe, 61.25.Hq, 82.35.Lr

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1SM05335C
Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Feb 2011
Accepted
21 Mar 2011
First published
28 Apr 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 5255-5259

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