| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 39, Number 1, July I 1997
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 25 - 30 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structure, thermal and mechanical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00308-1 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Growth of living polymers in a good solvent
Max-Planck-Institut für
Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Kantstrasse 55, D-14513 Teltow-Seehof, Germany
Received:
10
February
1997
Accepted:
26
May
1997
Conformation space renormalisation group theory is applied to study
the size distribution of living or self-assembling polymers in good solvents.
In dilute solution the aggregate size distribution is found to be of
the Schulz-Zimm type. It crosses over to
an (almost) exponential distribution in the
semi-dilute regime. The
growth exponent, describing the power law dependence of the mean aggregate size
on the concentration, changes from
in dilute to
in semi-dilute solution,
to
first order in 
with 
the dimensionality of space.
PACS: 61.25.Hq – Macromolecular and polymer solutions; polymer melts; swelling / 82.35.+t – Polymer reactions and polymerization / 82.70.-y – Disperse systems
© EDP Sciences, 1997
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