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Monte carlo simulation of many‐arm star polymers
Author(s) -
Ohno Kaoru
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.19940810114
Subject(s) - star polymer , monte carlo method , star (game theory) , polymer , exponent , materials science , statistical physics , physics , polymer chemistry , composite material , mathematics , astrophysics , statistics , copolymer , linguistics , philosophy
The statistics of many‐arm star polymers in dilute solution is studied by means of the enrichment algorithm [K. Ohno and K. Binder, J. Stat. Phys. 64 , 781 (1991)] using a Monte Carlo simulation technique. In this study, typically 50,000 samples of star polymers with 12–32 arms each of which has 50 bonds are generated. The results for the configuration‐number exponent γ( f ) are γ(12) = ‐3.4 ± 0.3, γ(18) = ‐8.9 ± 0.2 and γ(32) = ‐29 ± 2.