Selection of length distributions in living polymers
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 50 (2) , 774-779
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.50.774
Abstract
International audienceThe steady state distribution of polymer (or micelle) lengths under nonequilbrium conditions in which monomers are continuously extracted from a system is studied. The dynamical equations describing this process exhibit a one-parameter family of steady state distributions. A study of the dynamical equations suggests that they exhibit either a linear marginal or nonlinear marginal selection, depending on the control parameters of the model. The selection is explicitly demonstrated for a simplified linear version of the dynamical equationsKeywords
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