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Influence of polymolecularity on the second virial coefficient of polymers, 2
Author(s) -
Jung Bernd,
Bareiss Rolf E.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
macromolecular theory and simulations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1521-3919
pISSN - 1022-1344
DOI - 10.1002/mats.1996.040050503
Subject(s) - virial coefficient , scaling , thermodynamics , polymer , statistical physics , virial theorem , scaling law , solvent , materials science , mathematics , physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , geometry , galaxy , composite material
It is shown that the recently developed scaling theory for the second virial coefficient, A 2 , of dilute solutions of polymers with non‐uniform molecular weight distributions in a good solvent is able to explain in principle all seemingly contradictory observations reported in the literature, in contrast to all other theories proposed so far.