Many-body interactions between particles in a polydisperse polymer fluid
(2012) In Journal of Chemical Physics 136(8).- Abstract
- We use a continuum chain model and develop an analytical theory for the interaction between many spheres immersed in a fluid of ideal polydisperse polymers. Assuming local spherical symmetry of the polymer field about each particle, combined with a local approximation, compact expressions are derived for the many-body interaction between the spheres. We use a mean-field approximation to investigate the fluid-fluid phase diagram for the mixture. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3685834]
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- author
- Woodward, Clifford E. and Forsman, Jan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- approximation theory, many-body problems, phase diagrams, polymers
- in
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- volume
- 136
- issue
- 8
- publisher
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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- wos:000300944000039
- scopus:84857850625
- pmid:22380062
- ISSN
- 0021-9606
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.3685834
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Theoretical Chemistry (S) (011001039)
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- 06fafbf0-1ea4-4d7f-af22-a40e80547c83 (old id 2383319)
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