Chatterji, A. ; Pandit, R. (2001) Semiflexible equilibrium polymers: a self-assembling molecular model EPL: Europhysics Letters, 54 (2). pp. 213-219. ISSN 0295-5075
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Official URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/54/2/213
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00297-5
Abstract
We propose a continuum molecular model for self-assembling, semiflexible, equilibrium polymers and study its statistical mechanics by Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. If the temperature (T) is high, we find a disordered phase in which the mean length langleLrangle of polymers is small. A first-order transition separates it from a low-T phase in which langleLrangle is larger and the semiflexible polymers are aligned enough to yield nematic ordering. Disordered, glassy states can be obtained at low T; we study these by an MC analogue of scanning calorimetry.
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