Polymer solutions: from hard monomers to soft polymers
arXiv:cond-mat/0507361 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/17/45/001
Abstract
A coarse-graining strategy for dilute and semi-dilute solutions of interacting polymers, and of colloid polymer mixtures is briefly described. Monomer degrees of freedom are traced out to derive an effective, state dependent pair potential between the polymer centres of mass. The cross-over between good and poor solvent conditions is discussed within a scaling analysis. The method is extended to block copolymers represented as "necklaces" of soft "blobs", and its success is illustrated here in the case of a symmetric diblock copolymer which exhibits microphase separation.
A review paper presented for the proceedings of the liquid matter 6 conference, held in Utrecht(NL) in July 2005
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