Statistical mechanics of solutions of semiflexible chains: a path integral formulation

Bhattacharjee, Somendra M. ; Muthukumar, M. (1987) Statistical mechanics of solutions of semiflexible chains: a path integral formulation Journal of Chemical Physics, 86 (1). pp. 411-418. ISSN 0021-9606

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Abstract

A path integral formulation has been used to study the behavior of a single chain in the solution of many semiflexible chains. The Flory-Huggins approximation on lattices suggests that the chains undergo a phase transition from a high temperature isotropic phase to an anisotropic phase where the chains are rod-like. Using a self-consistent approximation, we, however, find that, at any stiffness, long chains (in the limit of the chain length going to infinity) remain in the disordered state.

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