Third virial coefficient for 4-arm and 6-arm star polymers
Sergio Caracciolo, Bortolo Matteo Mognetti, Andrea Pelissetto
TL;DR
This paper calculates the third virial coefficient for 4-arm and 6-arm star polymers in good solvent conditions, providing insights into their interpenetration and interaction properties at large polymer sizes.
Contribution
It introduces a method to compute the third virial coefficient for star polymers, highlighting an additional contribution not present in simple fluids.
Findings
Determined the interpenetration ratio for star polymers.
Quantified the third virial coefficient for 4-arm and 6-arm star polymers.
Analyzed the behavior in the large polymerization limit.
Abstract
We discuss the computation of the third virial coefficient in polymer systems, focusing on an additional contribution absent in the case of monoatomic fluids. We determine the interpenetration ratio and several quantities that involve the third virial coefficient for star polymers with 4 and 6 arms in the good-solvent regime, in the limit of a large degree of polymerization.
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