Shape asymmetry of star-branched random walks with many arms
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 102 (9) , 3720-3726
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.468554
Abstract
Star-branched (off-lattice) random walks with up to F=96 arms and a total chain-length of up to 15 361 segments have been produced by means of Monte Carlo simulation. Several quantities that characterize the shape asymmetry of molecules have been calculated. By suitable regression long-chain limits of these quantities were obtained and analyzed with respect to the number of arms. Shape factors as well as asphericities are described very well by polynomials in F−1 or F−1/2, respectively.Keywords
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