Intramolecular form factor in dense polymer systems: Systematic deviations from the debye formula

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3805-3814

  Beckrich, P ^a   Johner, A ^a   Semenov, A N ^a   Obukhov, S P ^a,b   Benoit H ^a   Wittmer, J P ^a  

^a INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN SIZE; DEBYE FORMULA; DENSE POLYMER SOLUTIONS; GAUSSIAN CONFIGURATIONS; INCOMPRESSIBILITY;

CORRELATION METHODS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 34249781990     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0626113     Document Type: Article

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54. 26-will be presented elsewhere. Please note that these corrections to eq 2 do correspond to higher order deviations which can be shown to be negligible for the questions addressed in this paper.