Polymer solutions: from hard monomers to soft polymers

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2005-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507361v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

A review paper presented for the proceedings of the liquid matter 6 conference, held in Utrecht(NL) in July 2005

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/17/45/001

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.

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