Scaling and crossover to tricriticality in polymer solutions
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in JETP Letters
- Vol. 72 (11) , 578-582
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1348485
Abstract
We propose a scaling description of phase separation of polymer solutions. The scaling incorporates three universal limiting regimes: the Ising limit asymptotically close to the critical point of phasKeywords
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