Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-04-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
30 pages, 10 figures, submit to JCP
Scientific paper
Star polymer is a typical nonlinear macromolecule possessing special thermodynamic behaviors for the existence of a jointing point. The thermodynamic transitions of a single star polymer are systematically studied with bond fluctuation model using Wang-Landau sampling technique. A new analysis method applying the shape factor is proposed to determine coil-globule (CG) and liquid-crystal (LC) transitions, which shows higher efficiency and precision than canonical specific heat function. It is found that the LC transition of star polymer at lower temperature obeys the identical scaling law as linear polymer. With the increase of the arm density of star polymer, however, the CG transition point, corresponding to {\theta} temperature, shifts towards the LC transition and the reason comes from the high density arms of star polymer, which requires the lower temperature for attracting force to overcome the volume excluding effects of chain. This work clearly demonstrates that the distinction of linear and star polymers in structures only affects CG transition and has no influence on LC transition.
He Xuehao
Wang Zilu
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