Cooperative Chiral Order in Copolymers of Chiral and Achiral Units

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1996-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9608108v1

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1728 (1997)

Physics

Condensed Matter

13 pages, including 3 postscript figures, uses REVTeX 3.0 and epsf.sty

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.55.1728

Polyisocyanates can be synthesized with chiral and achiral pendant groups distributed randomly along the chains. The overall chiral order, measured by optical activity, is strongly cooperative and depends sensitively on the concentration of chiral pendant groups. To explain this cooperative chiral order theoretically, we map the random copolymer onto the one-dimensional random-field Ising model. We show that the optical activity as a function of composition is well-described by the predictions of this theory.

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