A Monte Carlo study of living polymers in 2D: Effect of small chains on static properties

Journal de Physique II

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1301-1311

  Rouault, Yannick ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYMERIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; BREAKING CHAIN ALGORITHM; LIVING POLYMERS; SLITHERING SNAKE ALGORITHM; STATIC PROPERTIES;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0030244072     PISSN: 11554312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/jp2:1996132     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Scott R.L., J. Phys. Chem. 69 (1965) 261.
2. Wheeler J.C., Kennedy S.J. and Pfeuty P., J. Phys. Rev. Lett. 45 (1980) 1748.
3. Kennedy S.J. and Wheeler J.C., J. Phys. Chem. 78 (1984) 953.
4. Faivre G. and Gardissat J.L., Macromolecules 19 (1986) 1988.
5. Zheng K.M. and Greer S.C., Macromolecules 25 (1992) 6128.
6. Appel J. and Porte G., Europhys. Lett. 12 (1990) 185.
7. Cates M.E. and Candau S.J., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2 (1990) 6869-6892.
8. Oozawa F. and Asakura S., Thermodynamics in the polymerization of proteins (Academic Press, New-York, 1975).
9. Blanckstein D., Thurston G. and Benedek G., J. Chem. Phys. 85 (1986) 7268.
10. Brown W., Johnson R., Stilbs P. and Lindman B., J. Phys. Chem. 87 (1983) 4548.
11. Zulauf M. et al., J. Phys. Chem. 89 (1985) 3411.
12. Zana R. and Weill C., J. Phys. France Lett. 46 (1985) L-953.
13. Tuthill G.F., J. Chem. Phys. 90 (1989) 5869-5872.
14. Tuthill G.F. and Jaric M.V., Phys. Rev. B 31 (1985) 2981-2985.
15. Menon G.I., Pandit R. and Barma M., Europhys. Lett. 24 (1993) 253-258.
16. Baumgärtner A. and Yoon D.Y., J. Chem. Phys. 79 (1983) 521-522.
17. Milchev A., Polymer 34 (1993) 362-368.
18. Milchev A. and Landau D.P., Phys. Rev. E 52 (1995) 6431-6441.
19. Wheeler J.C. and Pfeuty P., Phys. Rev. A 24 (1981) 1050.
20. Marques C.M., Turner M.S. and Cates M.E., J. Chem. Phys. 99 (1993) 7260-7266.
21. Gates M.E., J. Phys. France 49 (1988) 1593-1600.
22. Turner M.S. and Cates M.E., J. Phys. II France 2 (1992) 503-519.
23. Granek R. and Cates M.E., J. Chem. Phys. 96 (1992) 4758-4766.
24. Marques C.M., Turner M.S. and Cates M.E., J. Non-Crystall. Solids 172-174 (1994) 1168-1172.
25. Rouault Y. and Milchev A., Phys. Rev. E 51 (1995) 5905-5910.
26. Milchev A. and Rouault Y., J. Phys. II France 5 (1995) 343-347.
27. Rouault Y. and Milchev A., unpublished results. The BFM based model for living polymers was tested for several conditions in order to study the limits of the program, both for physical and computationnal parameters.
28. Binder K. and Heermann D.W., Monte Carlo Simulation in Statitical Physics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992);
29. Kremer K. and Binder K., Computer Phys. Rep. 7 (1988) 259-312.
30. Carmesin I. and Kreiner K., J. Phys. France 51 (1990) 915-932.
31. Madden W.G., J. Chem. Phys. 87 (2) (1987) 1405.
32. Madras N. and Sokal A.D., J. Stat. Phys. 50 (1988) 109.
33. Baumgärtner A., J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 17 (1984) L971-L974.
34. Mansfield M.L., J. Chem. Phys. 77 (3) (1982) 1554.
35. Olaj O.F. and Lantschbauer W., Makromol. Chem., Rapid Commun. 3 (1982) 847.
36. Wall F.T. and Chin J.C., J. Chem. Phys. 66 (1977) 3143-3146.
37. Wall F.T. and Seitz W.A., J. Chem. Phys. 67 (1977) 3722-3726.
38. de Gennes P.G., in Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics (Cormell University Press. Ithaca, 1979) Chapter 3.
39. Birshtein T.M. and Buldyrev S.V., Polymer, 32 (1991) 3387-3407.
40. Wu X-I., Yeung C., Kim M.K., Huang J.S. and Ou-Yang D., Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 1426-1429.