Soft Interaction Between Dissolved Dendrimers: Theory and Experiment

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2000-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0010235v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

20 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Macromolecules on July 24, 2000

Scientific paper

10.1021/ma001346x

Using small-angle neutron scattering and liquid integral equation theory, we relate the structure factor of flexible dendrimers of 4th generation to their average shape. The shape is measured as a radial density profile of monomers belonging to a single dendrimer. From that, we derive an effective interaction of Gaussian form between pairs of dendrimers and compute the structure factor using the hypernetted chain approximation. Excellent agreement with the corresponding experimental results is obtained, without the use of adjustable parameters. The present analysis thus strongly supports the previous finding that flexible dendrimers of low generation present fluctuating structures akin to star polymers.

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