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Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers and Characterization of Their Diffusive Motion in the Melt State at the Single Molecule Level
Published on: September 26, 2016
Real polymer size from the ideal chain molecules model in a diffusive Minkowskian spacetime
1Department of Biophysics, Biochemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Trieste, Via Giorgieri 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy. mezzasalma@bbcm.units.it
Abstract:
The universal exponent (nu(r)) of the real polymer size (i.e., the excluded volume chain) is derived from constraining the ideal coil model (nu(i) = 12) to a Minkowski-type diffusive spacetime. The square end-to-end distance was expanded in wavenumber power series, whence the leading contribution is extracted according to previously proposed Lorentz transforms acting in Brownian media. In the end, it turns out nu(i) approximately equal to nu(r) sin 1, in good agreement with predictions of the phase transition theory for critical phenomena.
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