Living polymers in a size-asymmetric electrolyte

Details Living polymers in a size-asymmetric electrolyte Living polymers in a size-asymmetric electrolyte

2002-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205167v2

Physical Review E 66, 020801(R) (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.020801

A living polymers transition is found in molecular dynamics simulations of a charge-symmetric size-asymmetric electrolyte with no anisotropic interactions. The fluid has strong polymeric character at low temperatures, where it consists of large, alternating-charge linear chains and rings in chemical equilibrium. A mean-field theory of chain association is consistent with the existence of such a transition. In the polymeric phase the system is very weakly conducting or electrically insulating.

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