Isotropic-nematic phase transition in athermal solutions of rod-coil diblock copolymers.
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چکیده
We present a hybrid method to investigate the isotropic-nematic (I-N) transition in athermal solutions of rod-coil copolymers. This method incorporates the scaled-particle theory for semiflexible chains with two-chain Monte Carlo simulation for the osmotic second virial coefficient and for the angle-dependent excluded volume. We compare the theoretical prediction with Monte Carlo simulations for fused rod-coil copolymers and find good agreement for both the equation of state and the orientational order parameter. The theory is also used to examine the effects of the bond length, the chain length, and the chain composition on orientational ordering in athermal solutions of rod-coil block copolymers. It predicts I-N transition in rod-coil copolymers with fixed rod length but a variable flexible tail in good agreement with experiments.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of chemical physics
دوره 127 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007